Surgeons pulled a live roundworm from her skull after she presented to doctors complaining of memory loss and depression.
Details of the shocking case were released today by the Australian National University and the Canberra Hospital.READ MORE:
Doctors suspected larvae, or juveniles, were also present in other organs in the woman's body, including the lungs and liver."This is the first-ever human case ofto be described in the world," infectious disease expert and co-author of the study Sanjaya Senanayake said. The woman, from southeastern New South Wales, probably caught the roundworm after collecting a type of native grass, Warrigal greens, beside a lake near where she lived in which the python had shed the parasite via its faeces.She cooked the Warrigal greens and was likely infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.
The following year she began experiencing subtle changes in memory and thought processing and doctors advised her to undergo a brain MRI scan.
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