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Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain (arstechnica.com)

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It's the first time the snake parasite has been seen in a human, let alone a brain.

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[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its not a snake. Its a roundworm that infect snakes usually.

A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a wriggling 3-inch roundworm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman last year—which was quite the surprise to the woman's team of doctors and infectious disease experts, who had spent over a year trying to identify the cause of her recurring and varied symptoms.

the roundworm was one known to infect snakes—specifically carpet pythons endemic to the area where the woman lived—as well as the pythons' mammalian prey