The leader of the popular punk rock band from Australia contracted swine tapeworm after eat vegetarian burrito a few years ago. Moreover, doctors initially suspected the man had a brain tumor.
Vocalist Frenzal Rhomb Jay Whaley suffered just two seizures in a row on the way to one of his concerts, after which he was sent to the doctor. MRI revealed the presence of seals in the brain, and doctors decided that Jay had developed a tumor. But when neurosurgeons opened cranium musician and prepared to remove the malignancy, they saw in front of the egg armed tapeworm .
Jay was amazed even more than his doctors, because he is a staunch vegetarian, and tapeworms can be picked up, consuming undercooked pork. Later it turned out that the parasite was in the body of the musician vegetarian burrito, which he ate in one of the Central American countries four years ago. As it appears, armed tapeworm hit the burrito cook through. When the egg parasite reaching the brain, this body has formed around the cyst to protect surrounding tissue. And through the years, when the egg has grown, the cyst burst, which caused seizures and vision problems.
40-year-old Jay outlined details of his misadventures on the page to Facebook. He wrote that the attacks had taken place on February 5. On that day, in the morning, he still could not see - could not consider the merits of coins held in his hand. The scan revealed a brain the size of a seal of 1 cm.
"In the worst case, it was a malignant melanoma, and at best a benign tumor or an infection, I told the doctors - says Jay. - Three weeks later had surgery. The reason for sealing the egg Taenia solium - pork tapeworm. What an irony, considering that the meat I do not drink. The doctors said that tapeworm can grow to a length of seven meters and live in the intestines over the years. At the time dragged! "(Read More)
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