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Woman Discovers 'Worm-Like' Parasite Living in Eye for Two Years
After extracting it, they discovered it was a pale C-shaped tongue worm larva. "Pentastomiasis is a rare zoonotic disease (transmittable from animals to humans) caused by the larval stages of ...
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RFK Jr. says he had a dead worm in his brain. What are these parasites and how common are they?
Kennedy addressed the issue in a tongue-and-cheek post on X ... There are several parasites that can do damage in the human brain, but the most common in the Americas is the pork tapeworm, Taenia ...