Live worm in woman's brain leaves surgeon shocked
A neurosurgeon has described her shock at pulling out a live worm from a woman's brain during surgery.
Dr Hari Priya Bandi was operating on a 64-year-old patient in Canberra last year when she discovered the worm, believed to have come from the faeces of a carpet python contained on type of native grass, Warrigal greens.
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