Tapeworm lived in man's brain for four years
''We did not expect to see an infection of this kind in the UK, but global travel means that unfamiliar parasites do sometimes appear.''
A tapeworm lived in a man's brain for four years.
The 50-year-old man - who is originally from China but lives in the East Midlands of England - had the 10 centimetre-long parasite living inside of his head for years before doctors realised it was there, despite him visiting them numerous times after suffering with headaches, memory loss and a lack of the sense of smell.
Dr. Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas is reported by the Daily Telegraph newspaper as saying: ''We did not expect to see an infection of this kind in the UK, but global travel means that unfamiliar parasites do sometimes appear.''