I passed a metre-long tapeworm and lived with 38 brain parasites for years – I turned psychotic and doctors were baffled

A WOMAN who picked up a tapeworm during her travels in India left doctors stumped when she later battled a decade of seizures ...

A woman traveled across India in 2007: four years later, doctors found 38 parasites in her brain and it took her ten years to recover

A British woman developed a severe parasitic infection that led to serious brain inflammation. Now recovered, she’ll need ...

Woman left with tapeworm and 38 brain parasites after trip abroad

A woman who developed 38 brain parasites after contracting a tapeworm on a trip to India battled a decade of seizures, ...

Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.

When cysticerci enter a person’s central nervous system, it’s a disease called neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is the diagnosis the doctors in Spain gave the man. Testing after his MRI revealed his ...

Man’s Suspected Brain Cancer Turns Out to Be Something Much Creepier

They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he actually had worms inside his head. The ...

38 parasites found in UK woman's brain after her trip to India: What is neurocysticercosis?

Lowri avoided meat during the trip to avoid food poisoning. However, she unknowingly ate pork that contained microscopic ...

If so many people live with toxoplasmosis, how dangerous is this brain parasite really? Should I be worried?

About 1 in 3 people worldwide have been infected with a microscopic parasite called Toxoplasma gondii—or simply "toxo"—which ...