When a young man in India started having seizures, doctors scanned his brain and found a grim image: His brain was dotted with parasitic cysts — the result of a severe and ultimately fatal tapeworm ...

A Texas brain surgeon successfully removed a tapeworm from a man’s brain after the patient reported severe headaches. Neurosurgeon Jordan Amadio, MD, of Ascension Medical Group in Austin, conducted ...

A man suffering from seizures, disorientation, and "speaking gibberish" had tapeworms in his brain. Doctors in the new case study said he had carried the parasites for years without symptoms.

Tapeworm infection from eating contaminated pork can damage the brain, causing learning impairments and possibly enforcing cycles of poverty. A new study is the first to look at infection rates within ...

The man had cysticercosis, a tapeworm infection that affects the brain, muscle and other tissues A man living in Boston — who medical personnel say was otherwise in good health — was diagnosed with a ...

A common parasitic infection, neurocysticercosis, is increasingly causing seizures in children, often mistaken for other ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- A British man kept having headache after headache, and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. When they finally conducted an MRI, doctors discovered something ...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that doctors once believed he had a dead parasite in his brain, The New York Times reported Wednesday, a fairly rare condition in the ...

(CNN) — A Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, according to a report published this month in the American Journal of Case Reports. Doctors ...

A man in the U.S. developed a parasitic infection in his brain after regularly consuming undercooked bacon, according to a case study published March 7 in the American Journal of Case Reports. The ...

Reducing tapeworm infection could improve academic performance, reduce poverty Tapeworm infection from eating contaminated pork can damage the brain, causing learning impairments and possibly ...

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