In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He experienced such drastic memory loss that one of his close friends began to worry that he might have a brain tumor. The current independent candidate for the White House, nephew of the former president John F. Kennedysaid that this health problem led him to consult some of the best neurologists in the United States, many of whom had treated or spoken with his other uncle, Senator Ted Kennedybefore his death from brain cancer in 2009. Several specialists consulted found a dark spot in his brain scans that led them to conclude that he had a tumor, as RFK Jr. himself revealed in 2012.
«I have cognitive problems, clearly. I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me,” he confessed then in an appearance that he offered to the press during the divorce process of his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy. The suspicion that he might suffer from this disease led the Duke University Medical Center to schedule an immediate intervention with the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle. However, while packing for the trip, RFK Jr. received a call from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. There was a different opinion. One of the doctors at the hospital believed that what he had in his brain was not a tumor, but a parasite. The anomaly that was seen in his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a part of it and then died,” Kennedy himself explained in 2012.
RFK Jr. had omitted his health problems throughout the campaign. The 70-year-old independent candidate has used his athleticism and his relative youth – compared to the two main candidates – as an advantage over the president. Joe Biden and the former president donald trump81 and 77 years old, respectively.
Kennedy, who left the Democratic ranks to run, has secured a place on the ballots in Utah, Michigan, Hawaii and, according to his campaign, California and Delaware. His intense efforts to gain access to more states could put him in a position to tip the balance in favor of one candidate or another. RFK Jr. has done everything in his power to appear healthy and vigorous. He appeared skiing with a snowboarder professional and with an Olympic gold medalist who called him a “ripper” as they ran down the mountain. A camera crew stood by him as he lifted weights, shirtless, at an outdoor gym in Venice Beach.
Even so, Kennedy has faced serious health problems over the years, some that have not even been revealed, according to the American press, including the alleged parasite. It has emerged that RFK Jr. suffered from atrial fibrillation, a common heartbeat abnormality that increases the risk of stroke or heart failure, and that he has been hospitalized at least four times for episodes, despite having stated in some recent interviews that he had not suffered any such incident in more than a decade and that he believed the condition had disappeared.
His campaign team has declined to provide his medical history, plagued by treatments, admissions and hospitalizations. Neither Biden nor Trump have made theirs public. Although the White House released a six-page summary of the president’s health in February and Trump released a three-paragraph statement from his doctor in November. Regarding the parasite that Kennedy himself referred to more than a decade ago, experts consulted by the local press consider that it could have been a larva of the pork tapeworm. Some can live in the human brain for years without causing problems. Others can wreak havoc, often as they begin to die, causing inflammation. The most common symptoms are seizures, headaches and dizziness.
