A WOMAN who picked up a tapeworm during her travels in India left doctors stumped when she later battled a decade of seizures ...
Lowri's headaches, seizures and psychosis were due to an infection caused by pork tapeworm larvae.
Parasitic brain infections may be the subject of many a horror flick, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says this was his reality back in 2010. How common are they?
A woman who developed 38 brain parasites after contracting a tapeworm on a trip to India battled a decade of seizures, ...
The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health research reveals how our bodies keep it under control. The parasite, ...
A microscopic parasite quietly infects the brains of millions worldwide. Known scientifically as Toxoplasma gondii, this tiny invader silently alters brain function without obvious symptoms. Beneath ...
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients ...
A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLOS Pathogens how a microscopic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can significantly disrupt brain function ...
Chris Tonkin spent years studying Toxoplasma gondii, a cunning and brain-invading parasite. But when he had to receive ...
What if one of the world’s most common parasites could subtly influence the brain? The evidence is compelling in mice, ...