did she inhale the food through her nose? jeez... On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:56 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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But on the operating table her doctor discovered something even more > unsightly -- a parasitic worm eating her brain. > Doctors say the worm could have come from eating tainted food. > > Alvarez, 37, was first referred to the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. > Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix with balance problems, > difficulty swallowing and numbness in her left arm. > > An MRI scan revealed a foreign growth at her brain stem that looked just > like a brain tumor to Dr. Peter Nakaji, a neurosurgeon at the Barrow > Neurological Institute. > > "Ones like this that are down in the brain stem are hard to pick out," said > Nakaji. "And she was deteriorating rather quickly, so she needed it out." > > Yet at a key moment during the > operation<http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6307053>to remove the > fingernail-sized tumor, Nakaji, instead, found a parasite > living in her brain, a tapeworm called *Taenia solium*, to be precise. > Related > <http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3666495> 6 Die From > Brain-Eating Amoeba in > Lakes<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3666495> > <http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5544081&page=1> Scorpion Venom: > Next Brain Cancer > Weapon?<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5544081&page=1> > <http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=4249610&page=1> Pain > Can Harm Your > Brain<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=4249610&page=1> > > "I was actually quite pleased," said Nakaji. "As neurosurgeons, we see a > lot of bad things and have to deliver a lot of bad news." > > When Alvarez awoke, she heard the good news that she was tumor-free and she > would make a full recovery. But she also heard the disturbing news of how > the worm got there in the first place. > > Nakaji said someone, somewhere, had served her food that was tainted with > the feces of a person infected with the pork tapeworm parasite. > > "It wasn't that she had poor hygiene, she was just a victim," said Nakaji. > > Pork Tapeworms a Small, But Growing Trend > > "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." > > The pork tapeworm has plagued people for thousands of years. 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