Ophidascaris robertsi, typically found in carpet pythons, was removed from the woman's brain after doctor's believe she ingested its eggs.
A 64-year-old Australian woman is the first documented human to be infected with a type of parasite normally found in carpet pythons. Doctors extracted a 3.
: “I was able to really feel something, and I took my tweezers, and I pulled it out, and I thought, ‘Gosh! What is that? It’s moving.' ... Everyone was shocked. And the worm that we found was happily moving, quite vigorously, outside the brain.” “It’s not meant to develop in her. It’s meant to develop in small mammals and marsupials,” Dr. Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious disease expert in Canberra Hospital, who was involved in the woman’s care,The worm, a third-stage larvae, traveled through the woman’s body and finally nestled in her brain."In retrospect, symptoms were likely due to migration of roundworm larvae from the bowel and into other organs, such as the liver and the lungs," explained Dr.
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