Doctors believe that the patient's habit of eating 'lightly cooked, non-crispy bacon' caused this rare parasitic infection.
A Florida man who experienced severe migraines on a weekly basis for a period of four months was found to have a parasitic infection in his brain.officials stated that the 52-year-old patient denied visiting high-risk travel areas, with his only notable travel history being a trip to the Bahamas two years prior.A Florida man's weekly severe migraines were found to be caused by a parasitic brain infection.This case is rare in the U.S., where infected pork is historically unusual.
The study states that undercooked pork consumption is a theoretical risk factor for neurocysticercosis and that “it is historically very unusual to encounter infected pork in the United States.” People become infected by consuming undercooked food—particularly pork—water contaminated with tapeworm eggs, or through poor hygiene practices, the
He may have gotten an intestinal tapeworm—called taeniasis—from eating undercooked bacon that had larval cysts in it and then, after improper handwashing, eaten the tapeworm eggs that he had excreted in feces, leading to neurocysticercosis.
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