>>Nancy Melucci writes:
<I just heard a peculiar story on TV earlier today (Spanish news), about a
lady who was found to have a worm in her brain, which was eating away at it.
Supposedly, it was due to her eating a pork taco in Mexico (she's from
Arizona). This was discovered on some medical scanning device. She underwent
brain surgery while awake in order to remove the worm. I had never heard of
such case like it, so I assume it is rare?>
It does sound like an urban legend, but according to the ABC news she had neurocysticercosis - a lesion in her brain caused by a parasite common in Latin American countries, found in undercooked pork. She had been sick for 3 weeks after eating the taco. (I was wondering how they could isolate it to one suspicious meal eaten weeks before.) Here's the scoop from ABC news:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/brainworm010410.html
Beth Benoit
College for Lifelong Learning
Daniel Webster College
Portsmouth NH campuses
