Doctors take a living worm out of a woman’s brain: could something like this be more common?

2023-08-29 11:22:44

It started with stomach ache and diarrhea. Memory lapses and depression followed. An eight centimeter long worm was responsible for the mysterious illness of an Australian woman.

There have never been cases like this in the hospital in Australia’s more tranquil capital, Canberra. The doctors were all the more amazed when they had to remove a live roundworm regarding eight centimeters in size during a brain operation. Said worm known as “Ophidascaris…

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