Her legs were tingling. Then, doctors pulled a tapeworm out of her spine
USA Today NetworkLilly Price, USA TODAY Published 10:17 a.m. ET July 13, 2018 | Updated 7:05 p.m. ET July 13, 2018
A 35-year-old French woman went to the emergency room to report a tingling electric sensation in her legs and trouble walking. The cause: A tapeworm lodged in her spine — swelling so much it hindered her ability to walk.
In a New England Journal of Medicine essay, doctors Marine Jacquier and Lionel Piroth of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon in Dijon, France, explained how the woman had fallen several times and the tingling feeling in her legs "had been progressing, and she noted that she had had difficulty riding her horse for the preceding 3 months."
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