On the other hand, according to the infectious disease experts and neurosurgeons citied in the article it was likely a pork tapeworm larva. The symptoms of memory loss and foggy thinking is more consistent with mercury poisoning.
“pork tapeworm larva”
from under-cooked pork, almost always from pork NOT raised in a pork factory, but from free range barn yard stock ... OR maybe from under-cooked wild boar ...