Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

A woman almost died after eating seafood contaminated with worms that burrowed in her brain. A woman almost died after eating seafood contaminated with worms that burrowed in her brain. The ...

A WOMAN almost died after eating seafood contaminated with worms that burrowed in her brain. The 60-year-old turned up to hospital with a fever that had lasted three days and severe ...

A tingling sensation in your feet is usually the result of poor blood circulation. But every so often, it’s an indicator of a ...

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point ...

Doctors concluded she’d been infected with the parasitic worm Angiostrongylus cantonensis ... The parasite infested his brain, putting him into a coma for more than a year and leaving him ...

That’s when they realized she might have brain worms. A woman from coastal New England, 30, is the subject of a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which explains that ...

In January, a disturbing X-ray of a human body riddled with worms went viral after the patient contracted cysticercosis — which begins with eating undercooked pig but is passed through fecal matter.

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.