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This undated photo supplied by Canberra Health Services, shows a parasite in a specimen jar at a Canberra hospital in Australia. A neurosurgeon investi ...

The creature was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite, named Ophidascaris robertsi. The worms are commonly found in carpet pythons.

The creature was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite, named Ophidascaris robertsi.

A 64-year-old patient is doing well after Australian doctors removed a 3-inch parasitic worm from her brain, and doctors are continuing to monitor her.

The creature was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite

The live eight-centimetre roundworm usually found in a snake "continued to move with vigour".

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital has plucked a3-inch wriggling worm from the patient’s brain.

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital plucked a 3-inch wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. “We all felt a bit sick,” the doctor said of her operating team. Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient’s skull at Canberra Hospital last year when she pulled the parasite out with forceps. It was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite n...

The creature was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite, and commonly found in carpet pythons.

The creature was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite, named Ophidascaris robertsi. The worms are commonly found in carpet pythons.