@cryp3rz: 🧵 The viral MRI you’ve seen? It’s real — and it’s called Neurocysticercosis 🦠 Here’s what’s actually happening 👇 🧩 Those “white spots” = calcified cysts or larvae from the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) 🚨 How you get it: ➡️ Ingesting tapeworm eggs (contaminated food, water, or hands) 🥚 Eggs hatch in your gut ➡️ travel through blood ➡️ lodge in the BRAIN 🌌 The “Starry Night” effect = severe case with hundreds of cysts in brain & muscles 📰 The 2019 NEJM case (often shared): • 18-year-old in India • Seizures + eye swelling • Cysts found in brain, right eye, and testicle 💔 Tragically, he passed away 2 weeks later ⚠️ Key facts: ❌ NOT from eating undercooked pork (that gives you intestinal tapeworm) ✅ Brain cysts = swallowing eggs from infected person’s feces (poor hygiene) 🧼 Prevention = handwashing + clean food prep 💊 Many cases treatable with meds + steroids if caught early — but massive infections are often fatal 💡 Handwashing saves lives. Literally. #medicalmystery #neurocysticercosis #brainhealth #parasitecleanse #starrynightbrain 🔗 Source: NEJM 2019 case report (18M, India) – disseminated cysticercosis https://speciality.medicaldialogues.in/indian-doctors-report-rare-case-of-disseminated-cysticercosis

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