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Live eight-centimetre worm parasite removed from woman's brain

Published 29 August 2023, 10:13 am
In what's dubbed world first surgery, Canberra surgeons removed a live 8 cm parasitic worm in a woman's brain. Researchers believe the worm came from the faeces of a carpet python.
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