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Worm discovered living in woman’s brain in world’s first case: ‘It’s alive!’

Por: New York Post Life August 29, 2023

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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... + full article



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