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Luis Ortiz, 26, a college senior, had a horrifying story in wait. A living parasite had got into his brain, which gave him less than an hour to remain alive, according to CBS News.

He was visiting home for a brief while before his senior year at Sacramento State started. Suddenly, he told his mother that he was experiencing one of the "worst headaches he had ever felt", which immediately prompted a frantic 911 call by her.

At the hospital, doctors found a tapeworm's larvae that blocked the flow of fluids in his brain, according to Palm Beach Post.

Noting that Ortiz had just 30 minutes to live, emergency surgery was done immediately with a tool that had a camera on the end so that it could remove the writhing tapeworm from his brain.

"The doctor pulled it out and he said it was still wiggling, and I'm like, 'Ugh, that doesn't sound too good.' Like, what are the odds I'd get a parasite in my head?" said Ortiz. "It's probably more gratifying to me to be living, because if I would have waited a little bit longer, then I probably wouldn't be here right now."

Perhaps he got it from raw pork, or when he went into a river, or perhaps when he dropped into a developing country, says Newsy.