Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, California lawyer Nicole Shanahan, is not shying away from the revelation that Kennedy once suffered from a brain-eating parasitic worm. The health issue—first reported by the New York Times—was discovered in 2012, two years after the independent presidential candidate began experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess.
A doctor reviewing scans believed the tumor-like appearance "was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it...