MRI showing a tapeworm moving across a man’s brain.

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MRI showing a tapeworm moving across a man’s brain. 

When a 50-year-old Chinese man was admitted to a UK hospital complaining of headaches, seizures, an altered sense of smell and memory flashbacks, his doctors were stumped. Tests for tuberculosis, syphilis, HIV and Lyme disease were negative, and although an MRI scan showed an abnormal region in the right side of his brain, a biopsy found inflammation, but no tumour.

Over the next four years, further MRIs recorded the abnormal region moving across the man’s brain, until finally his doctors decided to operate. To their immense surprise, they pulled out a 1 centimetre-long ribbon-shaped worm. The 2nd picture shows what a tapeworm usually looks like, not the tapeworm found in the patients brain. (Source & More Information)