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US Man Goes To Hospital With Migraines, Doctors Find Tapeworm In His Brain
It's believed that he contracted the illness from eating undercooked bacon after the patient told doctors about his ''lifelong preference for soft bacon.''
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Chinese Man Left With Tapeworms In Brain After Eating Undercooked Meat
The man is reportedly in his 40's and he rushed to hospital after suffering from severe headaches and seizures. A CT scan at a nearby hospital showed "intercranial calcifications" and lesions in his skull.
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Tapeworm Drug Could Cure Zika Virus Infection
Researchers have found some existing drug compounds -- including one already used as a treatment for tapeworm infection in humans -- that have the potential to both stop Zika from replicating in the body and from damaging the crucial fetal brain cells that lead to birth defects in newborns.
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Scientists Study Rare Tapeworm Living in Man's Brain
Scientists in Britain removed and studied a rare tapeworm that lived in a man's brain for four years, researchers said on Friday. The parasite travelled five centimetres (two inches) from the right side of the brain to the left.
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US Man Goes To Hospital With Migraines, Doctors Find Tapeworm In His Brain
It's believed that he contracted the illness from eating undercooked bacon after the patient told doctors about his ''lifelong preference for soft bacon.''
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Chinese Man Left With Tapeworms In Brain After Eating Undercooked Meat
The man is reportedly in his 40's and he rushed to hospital after suffering from severe headaches and seizures. A CT scan at a nearby hospital showed "intercranial calcifications" and lesions in his skull.
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Tapeworm Drug Could Cure Zika Virus Infection
Researchers have found some existing drug compounds -- including one already used as a treatment for tapeworm infection in humans -- that have the potential to both stop Zika from replicating in the body and from damaging the crucial fetal brain cells that lead to birth defects in newborns.
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Scientists Study Rare Tapeworm Living in Man's Brain
Scientists in Britain removed and studied a rare tapeworm that lived in a man's brain for four years, researchers said on Friday. The parasite travelled five centimetres (two inches) from the right side of the brain to the left.
