'It was one of those rare situations where you see a parasite and you're like, 'wow this is great!'' the woman's doctor said.
"My episodes were getting more and more bizarre," Palma told Today of her symptoms which emerged in early 2018."There were days that I didn't know where I was."
After a few trips to the emergency room, doctors performed an MRI scan on Palma which showed there was a marble-sized lesion on the left hemisphere of her brain, which is the dominant side iPalma told Today she and her husband were"both in shock" by the diagnosis.In the fall of 2018, surgeons operated on Palma, but were surprised to find what they thought would be a soft tumor was in fact a firm ball. It resembled a quail egg, Mount Sinai Hospital neurosurgeon Dr.
Rasouli told Today:"It was one of those rare situations where you see a parasite and you're like, wow this is great!": which occurs when the pork tapeworm infects the central nervous system. According to the World Health Organization, the condition is spread when an individual eats under-cooked pork, or other infected foods; drink water containing tapeworm eggs; or because of poor hygiene. Neurocysticercosis is the most common cause of epilepsy in the developing world.
Palma told Today her initial reaction when she was told she had been infected by a parasite was"gross." She doesn't know how she caught the condition. "I was relieved at that point that it wasn't cancer and that I wouldn't need any further treatment," she said.
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