India, July 2 -- A woman in the UK reportedly developed 38 brain parasites, which her doctor believes she developed after contracting a tapeworm during a three-month-long trip to India.

In 2007, the now 42-year-old Lowri Denman visited India and explored different parts of the country. According to her, she avoided meat during the trip. It was almost three years after her trip that she discovered she had a problem when she passed a meter-long tapeworm while using the bathroom in a restaurant, reported the BBC.

Her doctor, Dr Brendan Healy, a consultant in infectious diseases and microbiology, believes that she unknowingly ate pork that contained microscopic tapeworm eggs during her India trip, which caused the parasitic infection neuroc...