<div>A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities. <br><br>A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn. <br><br>A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target for flesh-eating strep.<br><br>Even the most innocuous everyday activities such as eating a salad for lunch, getting bitten by an insect, and swimming in the sea bring human beings into contact with dangerous, often deadly microorganisms. In <i>The Woman with a Worm in Her Head</i>, Dr. Pamela Nagami reveals-through real-life cases-the sobering facts about some of the world's most horrific diseases: the warning signs, the consequences, treatments, and most compellingly, what it feels like to make medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.<br><br>Unfailingly precise, calmly instructive, and absolutely engrossing, <i>The Woman with the Worm in Her Head</i> offers both useful information and enjoyable reading. <br></div>