Neurosurgeon plucks wriggling worm from woman's brain in Australia
The creature was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite, and commonly found in carpet pythons.
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The creature was the larva of an Australian native roundworm not previously known to be a human parasite, and commonly found in carpet pythons.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the pati
“I just thought: ‘What is that? It doesn’t make any sense. But it’s alive and moving,’" the surgeon told a local news outlet.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- A neurosurgeon investigating a woman's mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient's brain.
CANBERRA, Australia — A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon 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 used forceps to