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In a Rare Case, a Parasite Has Infected a Womans Brain
Imagine returning from a dream vacation, only to find yourself battling a mysterious illness that leaves doctors baffled. For ...
Woman, 30, infected by brain worms on trip to Hawaii — the symptoms that sent her to the hospital
A New England woman was struck with mysterious symptoms after returning from a three-week vacation, and doctors discovered ...
She thought she had jet lag. Doctors found parasitic worms in her brain.
Severe burning sensations and confusion were later attributed to rat lungworm, which is often transmitted through snails and slugs, a case study revealed.
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Parasite lurking in woman's brain caused mysterious 'burning' leg sensation
A woman developed an array of symptoms shortly after returning from a vacation, and parasites turned out to be the culprit.
Burning Sensation in Woman's Legs Caused by Brain Worms She Got on a Three-Week Vacation
A woman returned from a three-week vacation and started noticing a strange burning sensation in her legs. She visited multiple doctors until being diagnosed with "rat lungworm," a parasite spread by ...
Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain
In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her ...
Woman’s mystery illness traced to brain-infesting parasitic worm
Doctors were baffled. It was the start of a medical mystery that’s the subject of a New England Journal of Medicine case study this month. In an 11-page paper published February 12, doctors at ...
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Does diet outweigh genetics when it comes to Alzheimer's risk?
But this was not the case. Using a 3D MRI rat atlas, scientists took images of the rats' brains and analyzed 173 different areas. It was the wild type male rats (the ones without the gene ...