Ophidascaris Robertsi Nematode.....incredible!

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/live-worm-found-in-womans-brain-in-world-first-discovery-12949900

[LadyCG]

You've got to be careful when it comes to vegetation and salad-type stuff. I swear it was the salad bar that made me bad in Turkey.

As to the parasite removed from her brain ... *Shudder*

[Bobbisox1]

Just read this, eeeukkk

[drmorgans]

A bit like the breakfast scene from Alien, except reality.

[Old_Geezer]

It was probably an ear worm that took a wrong turn.

[douglas9401]

I haven't read the story but was it a Mrs Chekov?

[Peter Pedant]

I dont think it was her bra , TTT

we did a radiology quiz and the - " you will never guess this" one was 1980.....

muscle with calcified thread worms....

In south America to capture a boa constrictor, you found the ( large) hole that it lived in. You dangled a human body ( live) in it. The boa bit the bait and locked on, and the helpers dragged the ensemble out and hit it over the head

then I think you ate it ( roasted)

and the victim presented 40 y later with calcified dead small worms in the muscles, caught from boa spit.

boa spit and not boa poo

I was gonna email the Beeb but this will do

( message to usual suspects. Dont say - "I dont understand", say "I dont believe").

oh, that reminds me - Virchow did an incredz no of post mortems a round Berlin 1900 and published the results and found brain cysticercosis ( related to this case) in 2%. n was something like 14 000
uncooked and badly cooked saudage apparently

[Peter Pedant]

an ear worm that took a wrong turn.
no that was star trek
the one with Ricardo Montalban

you put the leedol worm in a helmet and then on the screaming victim who knew what was coming
Converted into an ABer-as the worm found the brain. Temp lobe I remember. no no - meek obedient servant I mean

[douglas9401]

Snakes On A Brain

[wolf63]

I would have thought that the woman's body would have detected an intruder and sent something to kill it. The fact that it was still alive is the really eeky bit.

[Peter Pedant]

I haven't read the story but was it a Mrs Chekov?

Mme Chekova had a much more interesting life. She turns up in Adolf Hitler's entourage as a Russian emigrees who adore Germans, 1940-5

and then pops up in Moscow and is revealed as a known stalinist secet agent - feeding the russians secrets from the Berchtesgarden !

incredz but true = Olga Knipper

[Peter Pedant]

body would have detected an intruder and sent something to kill it

if it were perfect, then there would be no disease
see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%E2%80%93brain_barrier

[ToraToraTora]

Well it'd have starved to death in your "brain" PP.

[wolf63]

TTT, that's unkind. I think it would have a nervous breakdown and kill itself. :-)