(NEW YORK) — A report published Friday details a severe case in which a tapeworm infected an 18-year-old Indian boy’s brain, eventually leading to his death two weeks after he was admitted ...

NAPA, Calif. — It sounds like something out of a horror movie. A man goes to the emergency room with a headache. After examining him, doctors find a worm in ...

Ham and bacon are some of the most popular foods in the West, and their consumption has increased with industrialisation. Of ...

A 52-year-old man suffering from severe migraines was found to have tapeworm larvae attached to his brain, which researchers linked to his consumption of lightly cooked bacon.

The problems really arise in areas where pigs come into contact with human feces, the CDC says. Those pigs get the tapeworm, and then form cysts. Consuming raw or undercooked pork that’s ...

The parasite is typically contracted when humans consume undercooked pork contaminated by the larval cysts. When that happens, a tapeworm can emerge in a human’s upper intestines, where they can ...

CBS News Miami Live A man's migraines were caused by a parasitic tapeworm infection called neurocysticercosis. The arrows point to tapeworm larval cysts. The American Journal of Case Reports via ...

Doctors initially suspected that he had a brain tumour, but it turned out to be a parasite infection – specifically, a pork tapeworm larva lodged in his brain. Kennedy had been suffering from ...

There are two types of pork tapeworm infection. If we ingest larval tapeworm cysts found in pork or other undercooked meat, they can migrate to our intestines and grow into full-blown adult tapeworms.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a court in 2012 that doctors found a parasite in his brain. There's a one-in-eight chance you might have something similar. I've had one, too.

PolitiFact contacted Kennedy’s team but did not hear back. Infections in the body resulting from larval cysts of pork tapeworm cause cysticercosis, and when found in the brain, the condition is ...