A three-week vacation to Thailand, Japan, and Hawaii turned nightmarish for a 30-year-old New England woman after she developed severe headaches and a strange sensation in her legs on returning home. As her symptoms worsened, leading to confusion and hospitalization, doctors discovered she had a parasitic meningitis infection from brain worms.
According to the case described in the New England Journal of Medicine, the woman was diagnosed with eosinophilic meningitis from rat lungworm, a parasitic worm that gets into the human body typically through contaminated food.
