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 ...

The monsoon season provides a break from the scorching summer, but it also increases the risk of infections. Waterlogging, ...

A WOMAN who picked up a tapeworm during her travels in India left doctors stumped when she later battled a decade of seizures and developed psychosis. Four years after her trip, Lowri Denman, 42, ...

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

Lowri's headaches, seizures and psychosis were due to an infection caused by pork tapeworm larvae.

A woman who developed 38 brain parasites after contracting a tapeworm has told how she battled a decade of seizures, psychosis and uncertainty about her future. Lowri Denman, 42, spent two months ...

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

They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he actually had worms inside his head. The doctors detailed their macabre case over the weekend in the journal The ...

A UK woman said she developed neurocysticercosis after a tapeworm infection, leaving 38 brain parasites that caused seizures, ...