The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

When 17-year-old Manirul Beg from Haldia came to Delhi a year ago, hoping to get herself treated for tuberculosis, little did ...

Doctors found tapeworm eggs in his brain. ... An MRI and ultrasound would soon reveal the cause of his symptoms: several well-defined cysts in his cerebral cortex, brain stem, cerebellum, ...

But neurocysticercosis — the human brain infection caused by the larval cysts — comes instead from unwittingly eating tapeworm eggs, which easily pass from one person to another on skin ...

A CT scan image revealing tapeworm cysts in a patient's legs is going viral. The condition, called cysticercosis, occurs when individuals ingest Taenia solium eggs from contaminated food or water ...

Tapeworms get into the intestines when people eat undercooked pork that is contaminated with the larvae of the tapeworm. While in the intestinal tract, the larvae continue to develop, explains Astra ...

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.

Larvae cause small cysts to form, which can be picked up on brain scans. It is these cysts that cause symptoms, compressing neurons that can lead to defects in brain function , seizures and death .

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of an axial section through the brain of a 25-year-old patient showing cysts (purple) from a tapeworm infection.

When a person accidentally swallows pork tapeworm eggs, the eggs hatch in the intestines, and the larvae can travel to other organs, including the brain. There, they form cysts, causing a ...

The 52-year-old was sent for a CT scan, which revealed something alarming: his brain was infested with tapeworm cysts. The most common route of infection is eating undercooked infected pork that ...