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How did an 8-cm worm get into a woman's brain?
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6:19Now PlayingA neurosurgeon investigating a woman's mysterious symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient's brain. The roundworm Ophidascaris robertsi is commonly found in carpet pythons, but had never been seen in humans before.
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