A healthy 38-year-old man suddenly had a seizure and had to be rushed to the Massachusetts General Hospital, United States. After being examined, the doctor saw that the man had seizure tonic-clonic for two minutes, knocking him unconscious.
The doctor finally conducted an investigation with several tests and interviews related to the patient’s medical history on the family side. However, the family said the man was completely healthy.
Quoted from Daily Star, he had no history of seizures, cardiovascular, respiratory, or neurological disorders. However, the only information available is that the man had migrated to Boston from rural Guatemala 20 years ago.
When a CT scan of his head was performed, doctors found three calcified lesions in the brain and the unnamed man was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis. It is a neurological disease that occurs when certain types of tape worm The parasite attacks the nervous system.
Upon further examination, it turned out that the man had tapeworms living in his brain. These tapeworms have moved to various parts of his brain over the last few years, over 20 years to be exact.
Tape worm can grow two to eight meters long. This parasite can penetrate the intestinal wall and move in the human body.
Quoted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a study says that diseases associated with pork tapeworms from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including Guatemala, can cause seizures and can lead to death.
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