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Evening Standard
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Sami Quadri

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Australian medics remove worm from woman s brain - The Untold Story

An eight-centimetre-long parasitic roundworm has been removed from a woman’s brain after she suffered mysterious symptoms.

The 64-year-old from New South Wales in Australia was first admitted to her local hospital in January 2021, after three weeks of abdominal pain and diarrhoea, followed by a cough, fever and night sweats.

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