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A 52-year-old Florida man thought to be suffering from severe migraines was actually battling a bizarre tapeworm infestation in his brain — caused by eating undercooked bacon. He needed a hambulance.

Over that four-year span, doctors performed MRIs and tracked the movement of the worm, which is endemic to Asia, around the right and left hemispheres of the man’s brain. And researchers sequenced the ...