Woman Contracts Parasitic Worm In Her Brain From Pork Taco
What sounds like science fiction was all too real, Doctor found a parasitic worm lodged in the brain of a woman, who have ate a pork taco while vacationing in Mexico.
Doctors at Arizona's Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale believe the taco contained Taenia solium, a parasite that is surprisingly common in Latin American countries, and is often transmitted by eating undercooked pork.
The snack made her ill for three weeks. And soon after, she began suffering seizures.
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At a recent evening lecture at the California Institute of Technology, a neurologist was explaining the ins and outs of new brain-imaging technology to an audience composed of Caltech professors, students, and members of the general public. The audience was rather quiet, lulled by the technical tone of the lecture. But when the neurologist mentioned in passing that the disease afflicting one of his patients was caused by a brain parasite, the whole room sat up and made a collective noise of disgust and alarm. Brain parasites!
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What sounds like science fiction was all too real, Doctor found a parasitic worm lodged in the brain of a woman, who have ate a pork taco while vacationing in Mexico.
Doctors at Arizona's Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale believe the taco contained Taenia solium, a parasite that is surprisingly common in Latin American countries, and is often transmitted by eating undercooked pork.
The snack made her ill for three weeks. And soon after, she began suffering seizures.
Read More Here
Brain Worms and Brain Amoebas : They Do Exist
Parasites in the Brain?
At a recent evening lecture at the California Institute of Technology, a neurologist was explaining the ins and outs of new brain-imaging technology to an audience composed of Caltech professors, students, and members of the general public. The audience was rather quiet, lulled by the technical tone of the lecture. But when the neurologist mentioned in passing that the disease afflicting one of his patients was caused by a brain parasite, the whole room sat up and made a collective noise of disgust and alarm. Brain parasites!
Worm pulled out of woman's brain:
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