In April of this year, he was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a life-threatening tapeworm that was found in his brain. The tapeworm had been causing severe migraines and was thought to ...

On "CBS Mornings" Thursday, CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder confirmed there are parasitic infections you can get in your brain. Tapeworm infections of the brain, or ...

Kennedy Jr. said he once suffered from it. The condition, known as neurocysticercosis, is a brain infection linked to larvae from pork tapeworms. It's rare: It hospitalizes roughly 1,000 to 2,000 ...

Doctors initially suspected that he had a brain tumor, but it turned out to be a parasite infection – specifically, a pork tapeworm larva lodged in his brain. Humans are the main host of mature ...

A 52-year-old Florida man thought to be suffering from severe migraines was actually battling a bizarre tapeworm infestation in his brain — caused by eating undercooked bacon. The unnamed ...

When you are suffering a migraine headache, your first thought may not be that you have tapeworms in your brain. That may not be your second thought or even your 17th thought. But baby pork ...

They can then end up in any organ throughout the body, but most commonly they go to the subcutaneous tissues, as well as the brain and the eyes. So if you eat raw pork, you get a tapeworm—that ...

Doctors didn’t realize that the ribbon-like tapeworm confined to the intestines and the cysts scattered through brain and muscle were the same species until a 19-century German pathologist ...

Getting Tapeworms in the Brain You might think the adult worms would be more dangerous, but it’s actually the larvae that cause the most trouble. The adult worms lay eggs, and then the larvae migrate ...

However, parasites such as tapeworms do not consume brain tissue, as Kennedy suggested during his deposition. Tapeworm infections, or neurocysticercosis, can be contracted from consuming ...

A man suffering from worsening headaches was found to have parasites in his brain, likely linked to eating undercooked bacon, according to a recent study. Parasitic tapeworm larvae were found in ...

At this point, about one year had passed since she swallowed the tapeworm eggs — but her doctors still didn’t know that. Physicians turned their scope to her brain and found multiple lesions ...