Brain tapeworm caused man's four-year headache

Friday, November 21, 2014 - 19:10 in Health & Medicine

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...

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