Australian neurosurgeon finds parasitic worm in woman’s brain while investigating 'mystery illness'
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A 64-year-old patient is doing well after Australian doctors removed a 3-inch parasitic worm from her brain, and doctors are continuing to monitor her.
"I just thought: ‘What is that? It doesn’t make any sense. But it’s alive and moving,’" Bandi told the Canberra Times newspaper. "It continued to move with vigor. We all felt a bit sick."
The worm was identified as the larva of an Australian native roundworm named Ophidascaris robertsi. The worm, commonly found in carpet pythons, was not previously known to be a human parasite.
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