This is what it looks like when parasitic worms directly invade your brain
Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...
Woman’s fever triggered by WORMS that had burrowed in her brain after making major food mistake
A WOMAN almost died after eating seafood contaminated with worms that burrowed in her brain. The 60-year-old turned up to ...
60-Year-Old Woman Temporarily Loses the Ability to Communicate After Consuming Seafood with Worms Inside
A woman consumed a 'substantial amount of leftover crayfish' and later sustained a fever and lost the ability to communicate ...
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Fourth global detection of protozoan parasite in pigs hints at wider scope of infection
Investigators collected whitish, rice-grain-shaped lesions from affected muscle tissues in a pig showing no symptoms of parasitic disease. Tissue specimens underwent gross examination ...
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Worms discovered in brain of 60yo woman
A follow-up MRI revealed a significant increase in lesions and tests revealed an unusually high level of eosinophils (a type of white blood cell), pointing to a possible parasitic infection.
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Cases of parasitic diseases increase with lack of public vigilance
Fascioliasis occurs in 53 out of 60 provinces and cities nationwide. The flukes cause liver abscesses and ectopic fascioliasis can lead to various lesions at the parasitic sites. Tapeworms are found ...
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60-Year-Old Woman Temporarily Loses the Ability to Communicate After Consuming Seafood with Worms Inside
However, the rat lungworm generally involves a different portion of the brain and "rarely causes simple white matter lesions ... aimed at treating parasitic worm infections.