The worm's role in these neurological symptoms is unknown, but OVRV1 may be the culprit. "The most likely candidate for driving disease is the rhabdovirus OVRV1," Taylor argued. Other ...

or even your standard-issue worm. The brain-invading culprit is instead a tapeworm (a kind of helminth) that typically makes its home in pigs. As far as parasitic infections go, this is “the ...

A trip to the emergency room revealed no obvious culprit. Five days after symptoms ... got worse before she was diagnosed with parasitic worms infesting her brain. “It’s just so unusual ...

So, she ground up the dead worms and ran the superworm slurry through a sucrose ... To make sure they correctly identified the culprit behind the epidemic, the researchers collected additional samples ...