Doctors inspecting these mysterious bruises appearing on the limbs of two toddlers have discovered a severe parasitic infection of tapeworm larvae living in nodules under their skin. Images taking of a one-year-old girl’s arm and her three-year-old brother’s leg show multiple areas of discoloured skin, which tests later confirmed to…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report This image shows a 12-inch tapeworm removed alive from the brain of a patient who contracted the parasite by eating snake bile in the belief that it would help flush out toxins. Doctors examining the 29-year-old man from Shantou in China’s southern Guangdong…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report A man who suffered continual seizures for 30 years has been cured after doctors found a wriggling four-inch tapeworm - pictured here - inside his brain. The 59-year-old patient named as Mr Zhang said the episodes were so frequent he was having a…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Picture Credit: AsiaWire A young boy with a bulging stomach was found to have over 2 pounds of tapeworm larvae floating around in large cysts in his abdomen and chest. The four-year-old, who is surnamed Liu, was treated…
