Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the parasite that ate part of his brain would not affect his fitness to be president.
After he reportedly experienced memory loss, a 2012 brain scan revealed a dark spot on Kennedy’s brain, which was believed to be a tumor at the time. Upon further examination, one doctor offered a counterexplanation: a parasite that had gotten inside his head and died.
“[The dark spot] was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Kennedy said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by the New York Times.
Kennedy said he might have contracted the parasite on a trip to South Asia but was not completely sure. Experts said the parasite was likely a pork tapeworm larva, which survives off
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