<div dir="ltr"><h1 id="article-title" class="">Rock star claims tapeworm infected brain</h1>
          
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                <p class="">Published February 27, 2013<span class="" title="2013-02-27T07:34:26.000-0500"></span></p><p class=""><span class="">News Corp Australian Papers</span></p></div>
          
                  
          
          
                
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                        <p>The lead singer of Australian hard rockers Frenzal Rhomb has 
revealed he was forced to cancel a recent tour after surgeons discovered
 a pig tapeworm egg had infected his brain.</p>

<p>In a tale worthy of the <i>Twilight Zone</i>, Jay Whalley enlightened
 fans to his recent health crisis, which was four years in the making on
 the band's Facebook page Tuesday.</p>

<p>After suffering two seizures after a gig on January 25, the Sydney 
singer was rushed to hospital where scans showed a 1-centimeter tumor.</p>

<p>Whalley underwent a three-hour operation on February 14 and, instead 
of a cancerous tumor, surgeons found a mysterious parasitic infection.</p>

<p>Further investigation revealed it to be ''basically the egg from a 
pig tapeworm,'' which the vegetarian rocker may have picked up by 
accidental contact with an infected person during his Central American 
travels four years ago.</p>

<p>''Once in my stomach they never become tapeworms, but they migrate 
into the muscle, most of the time causing no problem and you'll never 
know it's there, the only place you'll have problems is if they make it 
to your brain or eyes,'' Whalley explained.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<br><a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a><br><br><img src="http://users.moscow.com/waf/WP%20Fox%2001.jpg"><br>

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