An 8cm worm has been pulled from a woman’s brain, in what’s believed to be the world’s first case of a parasitic ringworm from a snake infecting a human.
The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm was pulled, still living, from the 64-year-old NSW woman’s brain following surgery at Canberra Hospital.
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