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In a world first, Aussie doctors have extracted an 8cm living roundworm from a patient's brain - and a popular vegetable option was apparently the infector.
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00:02 What we think happened here is that our patient
00:15 collects Warigal greens, which is a type
00:17 of native vegetation found all along the East Coast.
00:21 And the python faeces and parasite eggs
00:24 would have contaminated those.
00:26 So when touching it or consuming the Warigal greens,
00:29 that would have been an opportunity
00:31 for the parasite to get into her.
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