Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first - BBC
Aug 29, 2023 · In a world first, scientists say an 8cm (3in) worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. The "string-like structure" was pulled from the patient's damaged frontal lobe during...
Doctors discover live worms growing under a woman's eyelid in …
Dec 3, 2024 · The live worms that doctors found in the woman's eye, shown by the white arrow in the image to the left and being pulled out using forceps on the right. (Image credit: Tan, S., Zhang, P., Li, F ...
Live Worm Found In Woman’s Brain Is Rare—But Common Deadly ... - Forbes
Sep 1, 2023 · Surgeons and researchers in Australia expressed their surprise when they found a living worm inside a 64-year-old woman’s brain, which they said could have been alive inside of her...
Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman’s brain in ... - CNN
Aug 29, 2023 · When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic...
Woman With Worm In Brain Has It Removed Alive After Odd …
Aug 29, 2023 · 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...
Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in …
Aug 28, 2023 · A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a wriggling 3-inch roundworm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman last year—which was quite the surprise to the woman's team of doctors and infectious...
Parasitic worm found ‘alive and wriggling’ in a woman's brain
Aug 29, 2023 · A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a live, three inch-long worm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman in June 2022.
Surgeon Finds Live 3-Inch Worm in Woman’s Brain in World First
Aug 29, 2023 · A neurosurgeon discovered a live three-inch worm in a 64-year-old woman's brain during surgery in Australia after she was admitted to hospital with a number of symptoms.
Live worm found in Australian woman's brain - BBC News
In a world first, the creature was pulled from the woman’s damaged frontal lobe during surgery, after she had been suffering an "unusual constellation of symptoms" – including stomach pain, a...
Living roundworm pulled from brain of patient, suspected to have …
Aug 29, 2023 · Nearly a year-and-a-half after her symptoms first appeared, brain surgeons at Canberra Hospital pulled an 8-centimetre parasitic roundworm — "alive and wriggling" — from her brain. The worm was believed to have come from the faeces of a carpet python.