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Australian doctors find live parasitic worm in woman’s brain
3 years agoThe lesion on the patients's brain (L) and a live third-stage larval form of the parasite seen under stereomicroscope. Photo / Canberra Health
A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes was pulled "alive and wriggling" from a woman's brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said Tuesday.