Carl Zimmer: With brain tapeworms in the news today, I thought I'd share this column from back in my Discover days, on the gruesome but surprisingly common disease known as neurocysticercosis www.discovermagazine.com/health/hidde...

With brain tapeworms in the news today, I thought I'd share this column from back in my Discover days, on the gruesome but surprisingly common disease known as neurocysticercosis www.discovermagazine.com/health/hidde...

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If the pop-ups are too much for you to handle, you can find my column mirrored here: carlzimmer.com/hidden-epide...

Hidden Epidemic:  Tapeworms Living Inside People’s Brains, Carl Zimmercarlzimmer.com Discover, May 15, 2012 Link Theodore Nash sees only a few dozen patients a year in his clinic at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda,...

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Overcursed

Wow, you've given me a new nightmare

It's an excellent read. Well done.

Terrifying, thank you!

I can't read that, it's riddled with video ads and pop-ups :/ Seemed really interesting too.

I could read it using reader view on Firefox. No ads or pop ups

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I understand your frustration. Please bear in mind that the magazines that pay writers like me have to make money, and it is not easy for them these days. If it's too much for you to handle, you can always find all my work on my own web site: carlzimmer.com/hidden-epide...

Hidden Epidemic:  Tapeworms Living Inside People’s Brains, Carl Zimmercarlzimmer.com Discover, May 15, 2012 Link Theodore Nash sees only a few dozen patients a year in his clinic at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda,...

I feel a little sick now.

Is it time for mallard penis puns given the Duckworth vs Drake discourse?

I see that I need to take a media free day. Argh, that photo.

when i was in medical residency in San Antonio this was quite common

I love when I click on a link to an article I'm interested in, and am then bombarded with advertisements and pop ups trying to take me elsewhere or convince me to give them money. No wait, no, I love the other thing where you can just read the article.

I understand your frustration. Please bear in mind that the magazines that pay writers like me have to make money, and it is not easy for them these days. If it's too much for you to handle, you can always find all my work on my own web site: carlzimmer.com/hidden-epide...

Hidden Epidemic:  Tapeworms Living Inside People’s Brains, Carl Zimmercarlzimmer.com Discover, May 15, 2012 Link Theodore Nash sees only a few dozen patients a year in his clinic at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda,...

This is less of a complaint about the format and more of a complaint about the website itself. Whole industries are on the brink of collapse as dipshit billionaires try to squeeze evert last cent out of every business to the point where they lose functionality and eventually customers.

I will check out ymthe alternative link you posted. Thank you.

After traveling in India for months where pigs roam free in the streets I understood all those biblical warnings about eating pork. The one thing the article got wrong is that the pigs accidentally eat the larva as they look for other food. Pigs enthusiastically eat the human poop it's no accident.

Geez

What a cool rock picture

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I am sure there was an episode of House MD about this. Eeesh.

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