The Democratic National Committee is demanding independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. release more medical records after he disclosed that his doctors found a dead parasitic worm in his brain over a decade ago.

On Wednesday, a press release from the DNC slammed Kennedy for not disclosing further medical records to voters.

“In an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, RFK Jr. committed to releasing more information about his medical history. The DNC has additionally called for RFK Jr. to release his tax returns and personal financial disclosures, which he has so far delayed,” the release said.

In a statement directed at Kennedy, the DNC claimed, “Every day, new questions arise about the side effects of the parasitic worm that ate part of his brain and the years of cognitive damage from mercury poisoning.”

In 2010, Kennedy had a brain scan to diagnose persistent memory loss. During their examination, doctors found a parasitic worm had made its way into Kennedy’s brain and died. However, the memory loss was caused not by the parasitic worm but by mercury poisoning. The poisoning was likely induced by eating too much fish containing the dangerous heavy metal. 

The independent candidate has said he made a full rebound from the parasitic worm, which required no treatment. Kennedy also says he has made a complete recovery from memory loss and brain fog in the 14 years since he treated the mercury poisoning. 

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Kennedy is the son of Robert F. Kennedy, a presidential candidate who was killed on the campaign trail in 1968, and the nephew of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. RFK Jr. has made light of the long-dead parasitic worm, laughing about the incident at the Libertarian National Convention last month. 

“Again and again, they’ve cited some pretext to suspend and volunteer — and violate our constitutional rights. There’s always a reason why, right now, the rights are an inconvenience that we can’t afford,” Kennedy told the audience at the Washington Hilton.

“It was the Red Scare in the 1920s. It was [Sen.] Joe McCarthy in the 1950s. It was civil rights protests and the Vietnam War protesters in the 1960s. It was the war on drugs in the 1970s. It was the war on terror after 2001. And most recently, it was the COVID pandemic,” he said, then joking, “maybe a brain worm ate that part of my memory.”