Worm discovered living in woman's brain in world's first case: 'It's alive!' - New York Post
Your nightmare this evening comes to you from Australia, where a woman kept returning to the hospital for a range of symptoms — until doctors found a worm living in her brain. Since 2021, doctors had been treating the 64-year-old woman with steroids and other drugs for pneumonia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dry cough, fever and night sweats. By 2022, she was also showing signs of depression and forgetfulness, so doctors ordered an MRI scan of her brain, which revealed abnormalities that led doctors to recommend surgery. "But the neurosurgeon certainly didn't go in there thinking they would find a wriggling worm," Dr. Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious disease specialist in Canberra, told the Guardian. Senanayake was brought into the medical drama when one of the surgeons called him and said, "Oh my God, you wouldn't believe what I just found in this lady's brain — and it's alive." Docto...
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