Earlier this year, a surprising story emerged about RFK Jr. — the newly named nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — and a parasitic brain worm.
A team of scientists based in Ukraine, South Africa, and the U.S. recently xxpublished about discovering a new worm species named after a Berry College professor, one of Georgia's best private schools in Rome.
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about a time when, as he put it, "A worm ... got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died." Here's a global perspective on these worms.