> The finding surprised the doctors since tapeworms aren’t endemic to Spain and he said he hadn’t traveled. However, the man may have been exposed during his work. Until 10-years prior, when he retired, he had worked in construction, often working alongside people who had migrated from regions where pork tapeworms (Taenia solium) are endemic. The parasitic worms can spread through the fecal-oral route. His doctors speculated his infection might have been a rare case of cryptic transmission from sharing meals and bathrooms with his coworkers, one of whom apparently had a tapeworm infection.
yikes
htx80nerd 49 minutes ago [-]
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vkou 38 minutes ago [-]
Where did you/your ancestors migrate from, and did any of them do any work at any point?
mhb 7 minutes ago [-]
Why did they use CT before MRI?
thelastgallon 1 hours ago [-]
Sounds like a Dr. House episode.
ramon156 53 minutes ago [-]
But actually, it was lupus
sourcegrift 34 minutes ago [-]
And the throat incision clip
tamimio 51 minutes ago [-]
Ok, and what happened to the man after? Did they remove it? Was he ok and back to normal or forever damaged?
throawayonthe 45 minutes ago [-]
> NCC can be serious, causing seizures, significant neurological deficits, cognitive decline, stroke, and other problems. But it can also be asymptomatic. The severity depends on where in the brain the worms settle. Luckily for the man, the effects were relatively mild. Doctors prescribed him two anti-parasitic drugs, and he recovered.
> We treated the patient successfully with albendazole (400 mg 2×/d) and praziquantel (1,200 mg 3×/d), alongside dexamethasone taper, without complications.
tamimio 36 minutes ago [-]
Thanks and glade he made it!
Rendered at 18:06:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
yikes
and here is the actual case report: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/7/26-0587_article
> We treated the patient successfully with albendazole (400 mg 2×/d) and praziquantel (1,200 mg 3×/d), alongside dexamethasone taper, without complications.