Doctors in Australia find humans can be infected by a new type of parasite

[Indus]

Scientists this week published information on an unprecedented case in Australia, where they found and extracted a live parasitic worm from the brain of a woman.

Apparently Australia doesn't just have the snakes and the weather trying to kill you.. it's the worms too.

The patient is obviously in very good hands with a very good medical team and thankfully looking forward to a full recovery!

 

[KB]

Worms in the brain aren't a new phenomena (https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/rat-lung-worm.aspx) but perhaps a live roundworm in a human brain is unique. Its scary to think our brains are just meat to other living things.

 

[UNCjigga]

So apparently she ate some kind of unwashed salad greens from a garden that was frequented by a certain species of python that's usually the host for these worms--or she's lying and she ate raw python/python eggs. Not sure how else these got in her bloodstream--nevermind her brain.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Forseen long ago by Rod Serling in an episode of The Night Gallery entitled, The Caterpillar. (Who scarfed it from Oscar Cook however)

"Oscar Cook wrote the short story (appearing in Switch On The Light, April, 1931; A Century Of Creepy Stories 1934; Pan Horror 2, 1960) "Boomerang", which was later adapted by Rod Serling for the Night Gallery TV-series episode, "The Caterpillar".[64] It tells the tale of the use of an earwig as a murder instrument applied by a man obsessed with the wife of an associate."

Earwig - Wikipedia

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