He ate raw pork and died of a terrible cerebral infection

An 18-year-old boy died in India after doctors discovered a plague of larvae in his brain. The victim was hospitalized in a hospital in Faridabad City, Haryana State, with severe headache and convulsions. He never thought that the diagnosis would be fatal: neurocysticercosis.

It is an attack of the central nervous system by the larvae of "taenia solium" or pork tapeworm, which occurs after ingestion of contaminated pork (raw or undercooked).

The boy had many cysts in the brain and it was impossible to apply a treatment with antiparasitic drugs. The young man was treated with antiepileptic drugs but died two weeks later.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tapeworm infection is the leading "preventable" cause of epilepsy in developing countries. The disease contracts through the consumption of raw food, especially pork, and by the consumption of water contaminated by their eggs.

Although the parasite usually lodges in the intestines, it can begin to invade other tissues of the body if it is not treated properly.

Source: The Mañana de Neuquén