Over that four-year span, doctors performed MRIs and tracked the movement of the worm, which is endemic to Asia, around the right and left hemispheres of the man’s brain. And researchers sequenced the ...

In Georgia, a 15-centimeter living parasite was found in the human brain. "This is the first confirmed case of a live ...

Saturday Night Live spoofed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s incredible revelation that a worm ate part of his brain before dying inside his head. Kennedy claimed in a 2012 deposition that doctors found ...

Some worms have the uncanny ability to regrow after being cut in half, and the science behind it, as well as notable examples ...

The surgeons removed it from Palma’s brain and placed it under a microscope. They sliced into it and found a baby tapeworm. “Of course I was grossed out,” said 42-year-old Palma on Thursday.

“The front is where the nervous system crystallizes because that’s the bit of the animal that’s meeting the environment head on,” Shimeld said. The first brain-like mass of neurons likely evolved at ...

An Indian girl who was mysteriously paralysed down one side of her body was operated on by doctors where they found a tape worm cyst almost half the size of her brain. According to a Daily Mail ...

Dr Ghali said that the disease, which is termed cysticercosis, is due to the presence of larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium ... and even to the brain. This X-ray image is enough to ...

For instance, one man lived with a tapeworm in his brain for more than four years until the headaches and strange smells become too much to bear. In other cases, parasites can kill their host.