Alive and wriggling! Roundworm found in woman's brain!
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People have been left stunned after a worm was found in a woman's brain.
A first of its kind has left people's stomachs turning.
"Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old Australian patient's skull at Canberra Hospital last year when she used forceps to pull out the parasite, which measured eight centimetres." (MSN)
Bandi and her team were shocked to find something moving while performing the biopsy.
This is not something that has happened before, and as she commented, the whole thing made them feel quite sick.
"I just thought: ‘What is that? It doesn’t make any sense. But it’s alive and moving. It continued to move with vigour. We all felt a bit sick,” Bandi added of her operating team." (MSN)
"It was a roundworm called Ophidascaris robertsi, which researchers said was a common parasite in kangaroos and carpet pythons - but not humans." (MSN)
The patient was given anti-parasitic medication and has returned home, but the doctors are keeping a close eye on her.
Since this was the first case of this kind, there is a lot that they don't know for sure.
Check out the interview below with the professor from infectious diseases at the hospital. Courtesy of Facebook.
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