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Griffin Eckstein

RFK Jr. said worm ate part of his brain

Doctors told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that he had a dead parasitic worm inside of his brain, the independent presidential candidate divulged in a 2012 deposition obtained by The New York Times. 

Experiencing memory loss and brain fog, Kennedy in 2010 consulted with neurologists who initially concluded that a dark spot found in scans of his brain was a tumor. But a doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital later told Kennedy that the spot “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Kennedy said in the deposition. 

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