Brain tapeworm caused man's four-year headache
21 Nov
The tapeworm was nearly 4 inches long and had traveled from one hemisphere of a man’s brain to the other. By the time doctors finally removed it, after nearly four years of it wriggling through his brain matter, the 50-year-old had suffered memory flashbacks, pain on his right side and complex seizures.
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute outside Cambridge, England, just reported their analysis of the parasite’s genome, which will be helpful in finding ways to fight it.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-headache-brain-tapeworm-20141121-story.html
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