When cysts develop in the brain or other parts of the central nervous system, the condition is known as neurocysticercosis; between 2.5 and 8.5 million people worldwide are believed to have ...

Scans revealed fluid-filled sacs on his brain and doctors diagnosed him with neurocysticercosis. Image of a tapeworm. Picture: iStock They were left puzzled when he told them he had not travelled ...

Festering tapeworm eggs were discovered to have taken up residence in his head after physicians conducted a CT scan to obtain a detailed image of ... known medically as neurocysticercosis, is ...

Further labs and imaging at the hospital showed that the cysts were parasitic tapeworm larvae that had taken up residence in his brain and caused an infection called neurocysticercosis ...

Kennedy Jr. said he once suffered from it. The condition, known as neurocysticercosis, is a brain infection linked to larvae from pork tapeworms. It's rare: It hospitalizes roughly 1,000 to 2,000 ...