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 ...
A WOMAN almost died after eating seafood contaminated with worms that burrowed in her brain. The 60-year-old turned up to ...
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.
The worms caused eosinophilic meningitis, a rare condition where parasitic infection causes brain inflammation. Unlike bacterial meningitis, eosinophilic meningitis is marked by an increase in ...