So, he was admitted to the hospital, where he underwent a CT scan, an MRI, and comprehensive ... It is caused by larval ...

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

They sliced into it and found a baby tapeworm ... s shape and the way it appeared on the MRI exam led doctors to a grim conclusion: brain cancer. But upon inspection, Rasouli said it was ...

following an MRI and antiobody tests, he was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis - a parasitic infection of the brain. The condition is caused by larval cysts of the pork tapeworm - sacs containing ...

around the right and left hemispheres of the man’s brain. And researchers sequenced the centimeter-long worm upon its extraction to find that it had a genome 10 times larger than any other tapeworm ...

Live science reports that, before they become adults tapeworms are larvae that can break down and enter the bloodstream and travel through the body eventually ending up in the person's brain.