A disturbing story in The New York Times on Wednesday revealed that independent presidential candidate RFK Jr. claimed in a 2012 deposition that physicians discovered a dead worm in his brain.
What do the Reports say?
According to The Times, RFK Jr. stated in court after his divorce from his second wife that he suffered both short-term and long-term memory loss. Kennedy claimed to have seen specialists in 2010 who believed he had a brain tumor, but another doctor advised that a dark spot on Kennedy’s brain scan was “caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” according to The Times.
During the deposition, Kennedy claimed that his health prevented him from earning as much money, and he also revealed that he had mercury poisoning around the same period. Kennedy has pitched himself as a younger, healthier alternative to the other two presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
His campaign’s press secretary acknowledged that Kennedy was infected with a parasite ten years ago and said it had been resolved. His team informed Business Insider that Kennedy is in “robust physical and mental health” and that doubting his fitness is an “amusing suggestion, given his competitors.”But could a parasitic worm inflict such damage? One medical specialist told Business Insider that Kennedy’s account of events does not add up.
According to Dr. Janina Caira, a University of Connecticut professor and tapeworm specialist, Kennedy’s parasite sounds more like pig tapeworm larvae. That would be unusual, Caira stated in an email. Humans can become infected with the adult worm by eating undercooked pork. Still, they can only become infected with the larvae by eating or drinking food contaminated with the feces of someone with an adult tapeworm infection.
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