Parasitic worm found in Australian woman's brain

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 30, 2023 12:10 am

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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