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it's thought she ate something contaminated with a parasite found in their poo, namely the eggs of a roundworm. after these hatched in her body, causing her symptoms, one eventually made it to her brain, possibly because medication she was taking suppressed her immune system. the patient is recovering well now the eight—centimetre worm has been removed. infectious disease experts say it's an example of the growing number of parasitic and animal infections which are threatening human health. my my word, fergus, thank you for that. there's much the england women's football team can be proud of after reaching the final of the world cup, and a key player was the attacking midfielder ella toone. she's been reflecting on the success of the lionesses, who fell a little short in the final against spain, and she's been
time, my laboratory colleague involved me and we got to work trying to determine what this worm actually was so we could treat this patient. and we looked through all the possibilities and realised it might be outside the realms of normal human parasites, we were able to send it up the road to an animal parasitology is too made the diagnosis. 50 parasitology is too made the diagnosis-— diagnosis. so this worm was successfully _ diagnosis. so this worm was successfully extracted, - diagnosis. so this worm was successfully extracted, was| diagnosis. so this worm was i successfully extracted, was it? diagnosis. so this worm was - successfully extracted, was it? it was, all eight centimetres, it was alive, it was removed from the brain by our neurosurgeon and it was alive when it reached the microbiology laboratory and it was alive when he got sent up the road to our colic at the csiro, then he dissected it and that was the end of the worm eggs absolutely extraordinary. find that was the end of the worm eggs absolutely extraordinary.— that was the end of the worm eggs absolutely extraordinary. and do we know or are — absolutely extraordinary. and do we know or are we _ absolutely extraordinary. and do we know or are we allowed _ absolutely extraordinary. and do we know or are we allowed to _ absolutely extraordinary. and do we know or are we allowed to release l know or are we allowed to release any details about how the worm got
itself in the python. what we think has happened here is that our patient collected some native grasses called warrigal greens for consumption, and we think the python faeces and parasite eggs have contaminated that. and by touching that and eating that, she's unfortunately inadvertently become infected. so she's an accidental host. look, i think everyone's grabbed on to the fact of the live worm being removed from the brain. but look, even if you remove that, there is an important a couple of important take home messages here. even though they've been there's been 100 years between true pandemics. new infections are appearing in the world all the time. there have been 30 in the last 30 years. three quarters of those are animal infections which have been have infected human beings. and as our burgeoning human population encroaches on animal habitat habitats, that interaction between humans, domestic animals, wild animals and flora will lead to more of these infections appearing. so that's really important.
there has been an election in zimbabwe and the president has been elected to a second term of over 52% of the vote there. in the last few minutes, zimbabwe's main opposition party has said that it is calling for a fresh election in zimbabwe and has disputed are the result of last week's vote a band called it a fraud. just to reiterate, the zimbabwe opposition party spokesman has said they are calling on the african union and the sadc to facilitate a return to legitimacy. more on that story and the zimbabwe presidential election has always on our website. now, if you're eating your lunch, or any other meal for that matter, you might want to just look away because scientists say that an eight—centimetre worm has been found alive in the brain of an australian woman — that is a world first. we've been speaking to one of the doctors who treated the woman. our laboratory in the hospital, our microbiology laboratory got a call from the surgeon saying we've
the cause couldn't be identified. a year later, her symptoms had progressed and included forgetfulness and depression, so she was sent for a brain mri, which showed damage in herfrontal lobe here. surgeons in canberra performed a biopsy and got the shock of their lives. it was definitely not what we were expecting. everyone was shocked and the worm that we found was happily moving quite vigorously outside of the brain. for many months, she'd been really struggling and it was really courageous of her to come and have further testing after not having answers for so very long. but she did really well for knowing what was actually causing all her trouble and then having now treatment for what was causing the trouble. so how could this happen? the woman originally from england lives near a lake in new south wales which is home to these — carpet pythons.
just discovered a live wriggling worm in this patient�*s brain. it's something we've never seen before. help us out. and as the on call infectious diseases physician at the time, my laboratory colleague involved me and we got to work trying to determine what this worm actually was so we could treat this patient. and we look through all the possibilities and realize that it might be outside the realms of normal human parasites and canberra being a small place, we were able to send it up the road to the csiro, where an animal parasitologist confidently made the diagnosis. what we believe has happened is this so normally this parasite lives in carpet pythons, which are found all over australia. the eggs of the parasite get into the python. feces, which small mammals or marsupials normally or accidentally consume when they're
laboratory colleague involved me and we got to work trying to determine what this worm actually was so we could treat this patient. and we look through all the possibilities and realized it might be outside the realms of normal human parasites and canberra being a small place, we were able to send it up the road to the csiro, where an animal parasitologist confidently made the diagnosis. and what we believe has happened is this — so normally this parasite lives in carpet pythons, which is found which are found all over australia. the eggs of the parasite get into the python. faeces, which small mammals or marsupials normally or accidentally consuming their eating foliage, etc. the parasite develops in them until another snake comes along and kills the marsupial or small mammal, and then the life cycle completes
down due to economic factors such as borrowing costs and even planning guidelines in terms of land availability, in the short to medium term that supply is only going to get worse. kiera now has housing she can afford but for the thousands in clearing, the hunt for a room has yet to begin. branwen jeffreys, bbc news, manchester. brace yourself. doctors in australia were startled to find an eight—centimetre parasitic worm alive in the brain of a patient. for 18 months, the woman, who's 64, had been experiencing mysterious ailments, and on hearing the news of the worm was horrified, but also relieved that at last the cause of her illnesses had been found. our medical editor fergus walsh is here. it's like something from a horrorfilm. surgeons say this type of worm has never been found in a human brain before. the woman was first admitted to hospital in south—eastern australia in 2021 with stomach pain and diarrhoea, but