It is called Cysticercosis — an infection caused by the larvae of the parasite Taenia solium or popularly known as pork tapeworm. This infection occurs after a person swallows tapeworm eggs. According to a case study posted in the New England Journal of Medicine website and authored by Drs. Nishanth Dev and S. Zafar Abbas from the ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Faridabad in India, an 18-year-old man presented to the emergency department with generalized tonic–clonic seizures. After conducting the MRI test, the doctors saw “cystic lesions throughout the cerebral cortex and the brain stem and cerebellum.” Two weeks after
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