TAMPA, Florida -- It's like something out of a science-fiction movie -- a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. But for one Florida man, it was reality. ***Warning: This story contains ...

Can I get a “brain worm” from eating undercooked meat? There’s little I find more terrifying than the idea of something living and crawling around inside me. Based on the number of sci-fi movies ...

A CT scan of a 52-year-old man’s brain, who complained of worsening medication-resistant migraines over a period of four months, revealed the presence of tapeworm larvae-filled cysts—an illness ...

When you are suffering a migraine headache, your first thought may not be that you have tapeworms in your brain. That may not be your second thought or even your 17th thought. But baby pork tapeworms ...

FLORIDA (KRON/CNN) – A Florida man is recovering from a surgery to remove a brain-eating parasitic worm that was living in his eye. Michael Poluska says he could see a little black dot moving left to ...

A little-known parasitic infection in the brain received a jolt of attention Wednesday when presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he once suffered from it. The condition, known as ...

(CNN) — Once you consume them, they can move throughout your body — your eyes, your tissues and most commonly your brain. They leave doctors puzzled in their wake as they migrate and settle to feed on ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- A British man kept having headache after headache, and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. When they finally conducted an MRI, doctors discovered something ...

An 8-year-old girl in India was plagued by seizures and pounding headaches until a CT scan revealed more than 100 tapeworm eggs had flooded her brain. Neurologists discovered the eggs, which likely ...

Tapeworm infections are rare in developed countries but still occur worldwide, often linked to eating contaminated or undercooked food. These intestinal parasites can cause nausea, weight loss, ...