Australian medics were shocked to uncover a 8cm long worm usually found in the guts of snakes alive and wriggling in a 64-year-old English women's brain in what has since been declared a world-first.

Doctors were left baffled when they pulled a live parasitic worm from a woman's brain in a world first - which is chillingly similar to the plot of zombie movies. The unidentified patient, 64, was ...

Health ‘Alive and wriggling’ worm survived in woman’s body and brain for at least a year The parasite and larvae known to plague pythons highlights the growing danger of zoonotic transmission.

The worm was believed to have come from the faeces of a carpet python. It is the the first documented case of this parasite infecting a human, Australian researchers report in the journal Emerging ...

Neurosurgeon plucks wriggling worm from patient's brain in Australian hospital: 6-month follow-up showed improvement in patient's neuropsychiatric symptoms. Worm was larva of native roundworm ...

Doctors have pulled a live and wriggling 8cm worm from an Australian woman's brain after she caught the parasite from a carpet python. While there's no need to rush out for an MRI, one doctor ...

How a worm helped explain human development Adopted as a model animal for scientific research in 1963, the nematode worm c. elegans has enabled vital discoveries about human biology.