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To the Editor: A 23-year-old woman noticed "worms" (small, flat, ribbonlike material) in her stool. She self-medicated with a single 400-mg dose of albendazole. The next day, more parasitic material was eliminated in her feces. By noon she had malaise, mild headache, feverishness, episodic left-sided facial numbness, and weakness of the left arm. That night she was awakened by a headache with profuse sweating, which was partially responsive to analgesics. The following morning she had vomiting and an episode of disorientation, with abnormal tonic–clonic movements of her left hand and arm. On arrival at our center, she reported headache; she . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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