An unnamed 18-year-old was admitted to a hospital in the Indian state of Haryana after suffering severe seizures and passing out. A brain scan revealed many small white capsules in his brain, the so-called neurocysticercosis.
These capsules contained the larvae of the parasitic worm of the species Taenia Solium, aka pork tapeworm or pork tapeworm.
Despite the name, its final owner is a person, and if this worm settles in the human body, then it can reach 2-3 meters in length. You can get infected by eating poorly roasted pork, which most likely happened in this case (paranormal-news.ru).
There were so many capsules or cysts with larvae in the brain of a young man that they caused irreversible changes. The brain was literally riddled with hundreds of cysts. Therefore, despite all the efforts of the doctors, the patient died two weeks after being admitted to the hospital.
Pork tapeworm.
This case was reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Nishant Dev, who was treating a young man.
He interviewed the patient's parents and, according to them, the guy complained of pain in his groin even before he was admitted to the hospital. In the hospital, during examination, in addition to the presence of cysts in the brain, they were found in the right eye and in one of the testicles.
For treatment, doctors did not use well-known antiparasitic drugs, since in the presence of parasites in the brain, they could cause further deterioration in health, such as cerebral edema and loss of vision. They settled on the anti-inflammatory steroid Dexamethasone and antiepileptic drugs. However, none of this helped the patient.
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