In a world-first discovery, doctors pulled a live worm from a patient’s brain. The woman had been suffering from abdominal pain, diarrhea, and a cough
SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYa 64-year-old woman from New South Wales, Australia went to a local hospital for abdominal pain, diarrhea, dry cough, fever, and night sweats.
Her symptoms worsened, and by 2022 included forgetfulness and depression. After a scan of her brain revealed abnormal lesions, she underwent surgery. According toWhile operating on the woman, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi pulled an 8cm-long parasitic roundworm, called colleague physician Dr Sanjaya Senanayake, and exclaimed: “Oh my god, you wouldn’t believe what I just found in this lady’s brain — and it’s alive and wriggling.
The team at the hospital sent the still-very-much-alive worm to the laboratory of a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist. The parasitic worm was identified “as a third-stage larva of
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