SYDNEY, Australia: A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes has been pulled "alive and wriggling" from a woman's brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said on Tuesday.
Baffled doctors performed a magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scan on the 64-year-old Australian woman after she began suffering memory lapses, noticing an "atypical lesion" at the front of her brain.
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