hospitalized with mysterious seizures and an "altered mental status" had tapeworms living in his brain for decades, according to researchers.
In a case study published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine, experts from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School said the 38-year-old man was initially evaluated following his first seizure and had been "speaking gibberish." The man, who had immigrated from rural Guatemala, was combative and disoriented until he arrived at the hospital, where he had a witnessed generalized tonic-clonic seizure.RELATED: 5-foot long tapeworm "wiggled out" of man's body after he ate sushiAlthough the patient's eyes were open – with an involuntary upward gaze – he did not verbally respond.