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Daily Mirror
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Olive Loveridge-Greene & Ryan Fahey

Doctors find enormous parasite the size of a FIST inside brain of 14-year-old boy

A teenager has miraculously escaped death after a parasitic tapeworm was found on his brain.

The unnamed 14-year-old had been experiencing headaches and vomiting for a month before the gruesome discovery.

He was rushed to hospital where doctors performed an MRI scan, revealing a massive cyst.

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