A woman who developed 38 brain parasites after contracting a tapeworm on a trip to India battled a decade of seizures, psychosis and uncertainty about her future after suffering repeated flare-ups of the parasitic infection.
Cardiff-based Lowri Denman, 42, embarked on a two-month trip to India with her friend in 2007, when she was in her mid-twenties. She travelled around the country and fell in love with its culture, and was grateful she didn’t contract so-called ‘Delhi belly’ – sickness and diarrhoea experienced by travellers who consume bacteria or viruses that their body isn’t accustomed to.
