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Suspected brain cancer turns out to be pork tapeworm infestation

boingboing.net • 28 Jun 2026, 00:31

Suspected brain cancer turns out to be pork tapeworm infestation
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Doctors in Spain suspected that a man suffering from chronic headaches had brain cancer. A scan showed a number of poorly-defined lesions, typical of cancer that has spread from elsewhere in the body. But when they conducted a higher-resolution MRI, they found not tumors but the larvae of pork tapeworm, a parasitic infection. — Read the rest

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