Scientists in Australia first find a live worm in the human brain

“The seven - inch - long [18 cm] period structure, which was eight inches [8 cm] long, left the front of the brain during an operation in Canbera last year, writes the BBC, records Periscopi.

It sure was something we weren't expecting. We were all shocked”, said the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Harry Priya Bandi.

The 64-year-old patient had symptoms of stomach pain, coughing and perspiration during the night, which later went into oblivion and depression.

Then, at the end of January 2021, it lay on the prickly, and a scan later discovered “an apic stain on the front of the brain”, but the cause of its condition was discovered only by Dr. Bandy during a biopsy in June 2022.

Doctors said the red parasite may have been alive in its brain for at least two months.

The woman, who had lived in an area near the lake in the southeastern New South Wales, is already recovering well.

Her case is believed to be the first example of the introduction and development of a washing machine in the human brain, researchers said. /Periscopi/