A New England woman who thought she was merely jetlagged after vacationing overseas and later felt her feet burning learned from doctors that she had contracted a brain worm infection, a case study showed.
The woman, 30, returned from a three-week travel to Thailand, Japan and Hawaii feeling fatigued and then developing a burning sensation in her feet after she ignored the fatigue, FOX 8 News reported, citing a study published Feb. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
The burning sensation spread to her legs within two days and “worsened with light touch,” Massachusetts General Hospital’s Dr. Carlos A. Portales Castillo reported in the study, according to the outlet.
The woman reportedly went to the emergency room (ER) and her test results were normal except for a high eosinophil — a type of white blood cell — count.
The symptoms worsened within days after she…
