Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Key Takeaways Brain parasites can cause seizures and lifelong disabilities.

When cysticerci enter a person’s central nervous system, it’s a disease called neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is the diagnosis the doctors in Spain gave the man. Testing after his MRI revealed his ...

Lowri's headaches, seizures and psychosis were due to an infection caused by pork tapeworm larvae.

The monsoon season provides a break from the scorching summer, but it also increases the risk of infections. Waterlogging, ...

Lowri avoided meat during the trip to avoid food poisoning. However, she unknowingly ate pork that contained microscopic tapeworm eggs, which caused the parasitic infection known as neurocysticercosis ...

Although the idea of parasites reaching the brain may sound frightening, neurocysticercosis is neither mysterious nor untreatable.

I came back from India with a metre-long tapeworm and 38 brain parasites – doctors didn’t know what to do - Lowri Denman, 42, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parasitic nematode infects a large range of wild and domestic herbivores, such as moose and elk (Getty/iStock) A moose in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The difficult-to-detect meningeal worm is spread by white-tailed deer and is a notorious killer of moose. AP Photo/Jim Cole, File ...

After visiting India, Lowri Denman, a woman from the United Kingdom, had brain scans that showed 38 parasite cysts, turning ...