Read on for a look at some of the oddest health news that 2020 had to offer. RARE BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA INFECTION CONFIRMED IN FLORIDA, HEALTH OFFICIALS SAYIn a case report recently detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors revealed that a 54-year-old Massachusetts construction worker essentially "overdosed" on black licorice. That was the case for one 47-year-old man who had gut fermentation syndrome, also known as auto-brewery syndrome (ABS). In the man’s case, clinicians tried putting the patient on a low-carb diet and course of antifungals, but signs of intoxication persisted, according to a case study published in August in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Woman’s headache caused by tapeworm larvae in brainA case report published just before Halloween this year detailed the harrowing reason for an Australian woman’s persistent headache: tapeworm larvae.

Source: Fox News December 29, 2020 13:11 UTC