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.
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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.