woman finds parasitic worm lodged in her brain after eating a pork taco

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Brain Worm

Woman Has Parasite Removed From Skull

 

April 10 - What sounds like science fiction was all too real for Dawn

Becerra, who found a parasitic worm lodged in her brain after eating a pork

taco while vacationing in Mexico.

 

Doctors at Arizona's Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale believe the taco contained

Taenia solium, a parasite that is surprisingly common in Latin American

countries, and is often transmitted by eating undercooked pork.

 

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