A man was hospitalized with worsening migraines only to find out they were caused by parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain — and researchers believe he was infected by eating undercooked bacon. The ...

A Florida man seeking treatment for his chronic, worsening migraines discovered that he had worm eggs in his brain, which was causing his pain. The unidentified man, 52, went to the hospital ...

An emergency room doctor is sharing the alarming scans of a patient who was hospitalized after eating undercooked pork. On August 25, Dr. Sam Ghali — an emergency room physician from the University of ...

The man, 52, admitted that he regularly ate undercooked bacon, which doctors believed made him more susceptible to a tapeworm infection, according to a report out of Florida published in the American ...

A Florida man suffering from persistent migraines was in for what was likely a nasty shock when he sought medical treatment and learned what was causing the pain. Festering tapeworm eggs were ...

Experts believe the worm found in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s brain is Taenia solium, or a pork tapeworm larva. This worm does not “eat” brain tissue. A presidential candidate said doctors found a worm in ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Health officials in a Belgian city have identified the source of pork tapeworm infections at a school. Department Zorg said that after an extensive search, the person behind the infections at Het ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- A British man kept having headache after headache, and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. When they finally conducted an MRI, doctors discovered something ...

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 his brain. Unfortunately for Luis Ortiz of ...