It's Not a Tumor, It's a Brain Worm Nov 25, 2008
Yet at a to remove the fingernail-sized tumor, Nakaji, instead, found a parasite living in her brain, a tapeworm called Taenia solium, to be precise. Related. (ABC News)
Seizures Following Parasitic Infection Associated With Brain Swelling Nov 6, 2008
The swellings, called perilesional edemas, form around dead, calcified cysts that result when larvae of Taenia solium tapeworms lodge in the brain. See also. (Science Daily)
NIAID media availability: Seizures following parasitic infection associated with brain swelling Nov 4, 2008
The swellings, called perilesional edemas, form around dead, calcified cysts that result when larvae of Taenia solium tapeworms lodge in the brain. The illness caused by T. solium infectionneurocysticercosisis the most common cause of adult-onset seizures and epilepsy in developing countries where the tapeworm is endemic. (EurekAlert!)
Worms infectpoor inU.S. Dec 27, 2007
caused by the tapeworm Taenia solium, that results in seizures and other neurological manifestations, Hotez wrote. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Health)
Worms infect more poor Americans than thought Dec 26, 2007
"Cysticercosis is another very serious parasitic worm infection ... caused by the tapeworm Taenia solium, that results in seizures and other neurological manifestations," Hotez wrote. He said up to 2,000 new cases of neurological disease caused by tapeworms are diagnosed every year in the United States. (Scientific American)
Poor Americans in the United States suffer hidden burden of parasitic and other neglected diseases Dec 26, 2007
Cysticercosis, caused by the tapeworm Taenia solium, is emerging as the leading cause of epilepsy among Hispanic populations in the US, and toxoplasmosis is an important cause of congenital birth defects among Mexican Americans and African Americans. "Because these parasitic infections only occur among impoverished people and mostly underrepresented minorities in the US," he says, "I believe that there has been a lack of political will to study the problem. It is easier to allow these diseases... (EurekAlert!)
* Egg-sized cyst on thigh gives man nasty surprise Jun 30, 2007
Doctors cut open his leg to reveal a cyst the size of an egg, and said it was caused by Taenia solium, or the pork tapeworm, which could have entered the man's body through eating raw pork. Peng confirmed that over the past two years he had eaten raw pork on a number of occasions but said he would stop doing so. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Parasitic infection plagues states along ... (Joyce Howard Price) Feb 8, 2007
Neurocysticercosis occurs when the larvae of a pork tapeworm known as Taenia solium enter and infect the brain and spinal cord and form cysts. Another parasitic disease related to consumption of undercooked pork -- trichinosis -- was relatively common in the U.S. before meat freezing became routine. (Washington Times, DC)
Fatal illness found in developing countrieswith poor hygiene habits hits South Texas Jan 13, 2007
According to the , cysticercosis is an infection caused by the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium. Infection occurs when the tapeworm larvae are ingested, pass through the intestinal wall and enter the body to form cysticerci, or cysts. (WorldNetDaily)
