UK woman's decade-long battle with 38 brain parasites acquired during India trip

Lowri Denman lost a decade of her thirties to illness, experienced seizures, cognitive impairment, psychiatric crises requiring hospitalization, job loss, and loss of independence.

A young Welsh woman returned from a backpacking trip to India in 2007 carrying an invisible burden she would not fully reckon with for years — the larvae of a pork tapeworm, quietly colonizing her brain. Lowri Denman's decade-long ordeal with neurocysticercosis, a disease few in the West have heard of, cost her independence, career, and the whole of her thirties. Her story is a reminder that the body holds its secrets on its own timeline, and that recovery, when it comes, can become its own form of purpose.

UK woman's decade-long battle with 38 brain parasites acquired during India trip

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