Surgeons Remove Parasitic Worm From Australian Woman’s Brain
A live roundworm found in a 64-year-old Australian woman's brain.
A parasitic worm normally hosted by a carpet python has been removed from the brain of an Australian woman.
A neurosurgeon was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient’s skull when she plucked out an eight-centimetre wriggling worm.
Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms at Canberra Hospital last year when she used forceps to pull out the parasite.
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