Can I get a “brain worm” from eating undercooked meat? There’s little I find more terrifying than the idea of something living and crawling around inside me. Based on the number of sci-fi movies involving parasites, from Alien to The Host, I’m not the only one with this fear. Lucky for most of us living in the U.
S., these types of migratory worms stay mainly in the realm of science fiction. We may worry about ticks when we go hiking, or lice when our kids come home from school and scratch their heads, but we don’t generally worry about worm eggs in our drinking water or uncooked food.
This is not always true in certain low- and middle-income countries where parasites remain an ongoing threat to wellness. As a child of missionaries, I’ve had my fair share of experience with parasites. There wasn’t a time when I or someone I knew wasn’t dealing with a parasite — an intestinal worm, sand mite, tapeworm — you name it.
I moved back to the states in middle school, and, like most Americans, I haven’t worried or thought much about creepy crawlies in my body, until now. That brings us to independent U.S.
presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “A worm.
.. got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.
” Uh, what? That’s a thing that can happen? In recent days, there has been a media frenzy following news that RFK Jr. at one time suffered a “brain worm” that left some kind of “shadow” on an imaging study of his brain. According to a dep.