Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a parasitic worm ate a portion of his brain and then died. But how do you get a brain worm and does it really eat your brain? We VERIFY.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a parasitic worm ate a portion of his brain and then died. But how do you get a brain worm and does it really eat your brain? We VERIFY.

“For reasons we don’t understand, oftentimes, the worm will just kind of live in its cyst for a number of years and not cause any symptoms,” Wilson adds. “No seizures, nothing.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a parasitic worm ate a portion of his brain and then died. But how do you get a brain worm and does it really eat your brain? We VERIFY.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a parasitic worm ate a portion of his brain and then died. But how do you get a brain worm and does it really eat your brain? We VERIFY.