A parasitic worm was found wriggling in the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman suffering from a “mystery illness,” a neurosurgeon said on Tuesday.
Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi discovered the 3-inch worm inside the patient’s skull during a biopsy at Canberra Hospital in June 2022 and plucked the parasite out with forceps.
“I just thought: ‘What is that? It doesn’t make any sense. But it’s alive and moving,’” Bandi told the Canberra Times newspaper. “It continued to move with vigor. We all felt a bit sick.”