She thought she had jet lag. Doctors found parasitic worms in her brain.
Doctors were baffled. It was the start of a medical mystery that’s the subject of a New England Journal of Medicine case study this month. In an 11-page paper published Feb. 12, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the University of Washington detail how the woman sought help at three hospitals as her symptoms got worse before she was diagnosed with parasitic worms infesting her brain.
Woman has burning sensation in legs after vacation — then doctors find brain parasites
Symptoms usually begin as headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, but then can spread to neurological symptoms after the parasite leaves the bloodstream, enters muscle, migrates to peripheral nerves and into the spinal column and brain, doctors said.
Woman’s mystery illness traced to brain-infesting parasitic worm
Doctors were baffled. It was the start of a medical mystery that’s the subject of a New England Journal of Medicine case study this month. In an 11-page paper published February 12, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the University of Washington detail how the woman sought help at three hospitals as her symptoms got worse before she was diagnosed with parasitic worms infesting her brain.
In a Rare Case, a Parasite Has Infected a Womans Brain
Imagine returning from a dream vacation, only to find yourself battling a mysterious illness that leaves doctors baffled. For one 30-year-old woman from New England, this nightmare became a reality when a parasite she picked up during her travels infected her brain,
Woman with ‘burning’ sensation in legs diagnosed with brain worm infection
A New England woman thought she was just dealing with jet lag after an extended vacation, but medical experts later diagnosed her symptoms as an infection from brain worms.
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