As scientists released details of a man whose brain was home to a tapeworm for four years, another Briton has come forward to describe how he, too, was diagnosed with a tapeworm in the brain.
A 50-year-old unnamed man lived for years with a rare parasite in his brain that was only discovered when he went to hospital complaining of a headache – and doctors extracted a 1cm worm and a large number of eggs that had eaten part of his brain matter.