The Last Thing You'd want in your brain - Tapeworm

This should be a lesson to everyone, because once it happens, you may get less than 30 minutes to live. After suffering from the “worst headache of his life,” this student at Sacramento State in California, was rushed to Queen of the Valley Medical Center by paramedics in August. His name is Luis Ortiz, 26. Brain scan revealed there was a wiggling tapeworm living inside his brain.

Then he had just 30 minutes to live on, unless a successful brain sugery was possible. 

Well, the doctors gave him three reasons:

But it was removed successfully and the man lived. The US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports larval cysts in the brain - neurocysticercosis - develop after a person swallows microscopic eggs passed in the faeces of a person who has an intestinal pork tapeworm.

Once inside the body, those eggs hatch and the worms can make their way to the brain. The CDC says approximately 1,000 people per year are hospitalised for neurocysticercosis and removal of the larvae.