Slate

The Story About a Worm Eating RFK Jr.’s Brain Is Not As Funny (?) As It Sounds

This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. “The doctor believed that the abnormality ...
New York Post

RFK Jr. said doctors found a dead worm in his head after it ate part of his brain

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a deposition taken more than a decade ago that a worm ate part of his brain before dying inside his head. RFK Jr., now 70, made the ...
Politifact

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a worm ate part of his brain. Experts said that’s unlikely.

Experts believe the worm found in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was Taenia solium, or a pork tapeworm larva. The worm’s larval cysts could cause a parasitic infection in the brain called neurocysticercosis, ...
Rolling Stone

Could a Worm Really ‘Eat’ Part of RFK Jr.’s Brain? We Talked to a Neurologist

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sold himself as the younger, healthier alternative to Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, but he once suffered a medical ailment so bizarre it has ...
Business Insider

We asked a parasite expert about RFK Jr.'s claim that a worm ate his brain. Here's what they said.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Brain-eating worms? Not likely. A shocking report in The New York Times on Wednesday revealed that ...
CNN

RFK Jr. details medical abnormality that he says was a parasitic worm in his brain

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday detailed the medical abnormality he experienced in 2010 that he said was caused by a worm that entered his brain and then died, ...
Healthline

RFK Jr. Says Parasitic Worm Left Him with Brain Damage

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times that a parasitic worm infected his brain and may have caused some of his past health problems. The pork tapeworm can ...
The Washington Post

RFK Jr. revealed he had a parasitic brain worm. Here’s what to know.

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that he was diagnosed with mercury poisoning around the same time doctors discovered a parasitic worm in his brain, adding to questions about ...
NPR

RFK Jr. is not alone. More than a billion people have parasitic worms

"A worm ... got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died." These are words nobody wants to say. They were spoken by a U.S. presidential candidate ...
STAT

Brain worms are more common than you think. Here’s what doctors who’ve treated them say.

Yes, it’s possible to have a worm living in your brain — in fact, it’s far more common than you might think, said Dr. David Hamer, a professor of global health and medicine at the Boston University ...
NPR

RFK Jr. isn't the only one. More than a billion people have parasitic worms

Editor's note: This post originally published on May 9 and has been updated. "A worm ... got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died." These are words nobody wants to say. They were spoken ...