NYC mother had seizures due to tapeworm larvae infection in her brain
A New York mother who endured seizures for more than a decade and attempted suicide during one severe seizure was found to have tapeworm larvae in her brain. The 32-year-old woman was taken to the emergency room at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens after having suicidal thoughts due to persistent seizures, doctors wrote in […]
Tapeworm in man’s brain caused by eating undercooked bacon
He needed an ambulance. A 52-year-old Florida man who thought he was suffering from severe migraines was actually battling a strange tapeworm infestation in his brain caused by eating undercooked bacon. . The anonymous patient, whose medically harrowing story recently appeared in the American Journal of Case Reports, had been complaining of severe headaches for […]