A woman went in for surgery for what was believed to be a small tumor on her brain. But it turned out to be a tape worm – specifically named “Taenia solium”.

How did a tape worm get in her brain, You might ask?

It seems that the minute eggs from a tape worm in the body can pass out of the body and end up in “tainted” food – food that has been handled by someone that came into contact with the eggs of tape worms, most likely in feces.

And this is not an extremely rare case any longer: “We’ve got a lot more of cases of this in the United States now,” said Raymond Kuhn, professor of biology and an expert on parasites at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. “Upwards of 20 percent of neurology offices in California have seen it.”

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So the next time you want to go out to eat, think about it….

–Pat