Author: Jonathan Raymond; Nick Viviani / Source: wibw.com
(Gray News) – A teenager in India died two weeks after showing up at an emergency room with seizures and groin pain, appearing confused and with swelling over his eye, in what turned out to be symptoms of a parasitic brain disease caused by a tapeworm.
The unsettling case was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, by two doctors, Nishanth Dev and S. Zafar Abbas, of the ESIC Medical College and Hospital outside New Delhi.
According to the doctors, the 18-year-old had been having pain in his right groin for at least a week. An MRI revealed “numerous well-defined cystic lesions” throughout his brain.
He was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis, which the World Health Organization describes as a “tapeworm infection of…
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