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'It’s alive and moving': Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman’s brain in world first

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 ...
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This Worm, Never Before Seen in Humans, Was Removed From an Australian Woman’s Brain

A parasitic roundworm, usually found in brains of unlucky python snakes was recently surgically removed from a human. And it’s the first time one of these has ever been found in a human. Veuer’s Tony ...
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Australian study warns over parasitic infections after roundworm found in woman's brain

Aug. 29 (UPI) --Surgeons in Australia pulled a live 3-inch-long parasitic worm from the front of a woman's brain in what is believed to be the first time this type of infection has been found in ...

Four-inch worm hatches in woman’s forehead, wriggles to her eyelid

If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4 ...