A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain.
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00:00 A live parasitic roundworm has been pulled out of a woman`s brain in Australia. While
00:05 it was still wriggling, the stomach churning discovery was the first time a worm of this
00:10 type has been discovered in any mammal, including humans, as they are usually found in the brains
00:16 of snakes.
00:17 If you think of the human brain, which is, I mean, quite big, but not huge, and this
00:23 one was eight centimeters long, and it was alive and wriggling when our poor, but very
00:31 skilled neurosurgeon took it out with some forceps.
00:35 One theory is that the woman was infected after foraging for edible shrubs near her
00:39 house. The 64-year-old is being observed by doctors in case the worm had left behind eggs,
00:45 potentially causing further trouble.
00:47 [Whoosh]