Did a worm eat part of the brain of RFK Jr.? #shorts

🐛🧠Did a worm eat part of the brain of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?

"With the information we have thus far, it appears most likely that Kennedy's condition was consistent with an infection by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium," Simon Groen, PhD, of the University of California Riverside.

And... neurocysticercosis cysts don't "eat" brain, said Philip Budge, MD, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "The parasite larvae reach the brain via the circulatory system, then produce a cyst that displaces the surrounding tissues."

Brain cysts from worm infections are a leading cause of seizures worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. The CDC estimates that about 2,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized with neurocysticercosis each year.

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