Taste for undercooked bacon leads to tapeworm in man’s brain: case
US doctors say the patient's sole symptom was a change in migraine patterns.
A lifelong love of undercooked bacon probably caused a pork tapeworm infection in a middle-aged man’s brain, US doctors report.
Their 52-year-old patient with a history of complicated type 2 diabetes and obesity complained that his migraines had recently worsened.
During a four-month period, he said the headaches had increased in frequency, were more severe — particularly over his occiput bilaterally — and were no longer responsive to abortive therapy.
The clinicians, from the Orlando Regional Healthcare System and University of South Florida, said the man had denied any new focal neurological deficits, changes in migraine aura, seizures, dysphagia or other symptoms.
