The woman had been admitted to the hospital after experiencing forgetfulness and worsening depression over three months
A neurosurgeon investigating a patient’s mystery neurological symptoms in an Australian hospital was surprised to pluck a 3in worm from her brain. Photograph: Canberra Health Services/APA neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital said she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain.
“I just thought ‘What is that? It doesn’t make any sense. But it’s alive and moving’,” she was quoted as saying in The Canberra Times newspaper on Tuesday.READ MORE Dr Bandi and Canberra infectious diseases physician Sanjaya Senanayake are authors of an article about the extraordinary medical case published in the latest edition of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
“Suddenly, with her forceps, she’s picking up this thing that’s wriggling. She and everyone in that operating theatre were absolutely stunned,” he added.The worms’ eggs are commonly shed in snake droppings which are eaten by small mammals. The life cycle continues as other snakes eat the mammals.
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