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Health officials have even had to recruit a number of doctors who were on vaca- tion to help with the influx of patients.
But symptoms may not manifest for years. This man’s cysts caused no prob- lems until three years ago, when he fell out of bed, “shaking and speaking gib- berish,” then had a two-min- ute seizure on the way to the hospital.
Kelly found a 1948 year- book from the school on eBay, which revealed the ring’s likely owner: Richard William Deneke. Deneke is nearing his 100th birthday at a nursing home in Georgia, and Stewart indicated he plans to mail the ring back to him.
Brain Crawl
Seizures are frightening enough, but seizures caused by tapeworms add an ele- ment of “eww.”
According to doctors in Massachusetts who re- cently described the case in the New England Jour- nal of Medicine, the other- wise-healthy 38-year-old man had had dead tapeworm cysts lodged in his brain for decades — a relatively rare
Luckily, he was dis- charged after five days of treatment and remains in good health today.
“I think it’s amazing,” Deneke told Stewart in a phone call.
A Familiar Ring
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BBC News reported that three people have died so far from scorpion stings, and 450 have been injured. The injured are being treat- ed with antivenom.
form of infestation called neurocysticercosis. When these cysts become stuck in the brain, they can cause pressure, inflammation and neurological symptoms that are sometimes confused for brain tumors.
Richfield, Utah, found the ring in 2019 while using his metal detector in the yard of an abandoned home. It’s a 10-karat gold ring from the 1943 class of the Colorado School of Mines, inscribed with the initials “R.W.D.”