Woman develops 38 brain parasites from pork tapeworm years after India trip
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Nicola Bryan
Summary
A woman from Carmarthen, Lowri, recounts how a trip to India in 2007 led to a severe parasitic brain infection years later. She developed headaches, seizures, and psychosis due to pork tapeworm larvae (neurocysticercosis), which resulted in 38 parasites in her brain. After a long and difficult medical journey including hospitalization in a neuropsychiatric unit, she eventually recovered. Despite the ordeal, she looks back fondly on her Indian travel experience.
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· 3 pulledLowri says she is happy to be alive and healthy after her ordeal
Lowri says despite what happened, the culture, food, landscape and people she experienced in India will stay with her forever
Lowri still looks back on her 2007 trip to India with fondness
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