A man's preference for eating soft bacon led to him becoming infected with brain worms in a rare medical case. (Image credit: nazarethman via Getty Images (bacon)/Rjgalindo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Photo of anterior pork tapeworm).)
Patient: 52-year-old man from the United States.
Symptoms: The patient came to the outpatient clinic after noticing a change in his usual migraine symptoms. Over the past four months, his medications had stopped working, and his attacks were occurring more frequently than usual—about once a week—and were becoming more severe. He also reported increased pain in the back of his head.
What happened next: Doctors checked the man's vital signs, which were normal. They also performed a CT scan of his brain, which revealed numerous cysts scattered across both hemispheres. Specifically, these growths were found in the organ's white matter — the isolated wires that extend from neurons.
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