‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery | Health [The Guardian]
‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery | Health [The Guardian]
Woman complained of forgetfulness and depression before doctors pulled out an 8cm roundworm normally found in pythons
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is apparently based on a true story.
119Baldur's Gate sounds like it's based on Australia tbf
27I just got to the scary shadow place, and TBH I cant tell the difference
8"Faerun" I'm pretty sure is just a province in australia
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Even Mind Flayers are afraid of living in Australia
15Apparently she's yet to undergo ceremorphosis so I wonder what sort of powers she's getting.
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Ophidascaris robertsi is a roundworm usually found in pythons. The Canberra hospital patient marks the world-first case of the parasite being found in humans.
The patient resides near a lake area inhabited by carpet pythons. Despite no direct snake contact, she often collected native grasses, including warrigal greens, from around the lake to use in cooking, Senanayake said.
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.
Moral of the story: make sure you wash all the snake shit off your produce and hands before eating.
98You don't have to eat a round worm for it to get all up in you. They can enter through the skin on your hands and feet. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000630.htm
28If this is the first case when is it the first case of that zombie fungus from the last of us
1Why is she eating grass? Grass doesn't have any nutritional value for humans.
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People in Australia always say that everyone overstated its dangers.
But I think Australians just want us to visit and store more of their mindworms.
77Could have been the mind worms all along, "No it's perfectly safe. Please bring your delicious brains to our land"
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It's too bad that the brain doesn't have the capability to feel itself. Imagine the fun of having a little buddy wiggling though your thoughts.
Maybe it'd even tickle :357A past team member of mine had a client who kept telling providers that she "has worms in my brain." Multiple providers discounted the medical relevance of this individual's claims as delusions due to her schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and her low level of function.
My team member fought the providers like hell to get her an fMRI. Well the fMRI showed her brain was riddled with at that point inoperable tumors, and she died not long afterwards.
I'd heard other accounts of similar stories, but that was the first real-world example I had. If I had a client telling me there were ants in his belly, I'm not going to believe that's accurate, but I made damn sure we addressed it with providers.
People can describe physical symptoms in seemingly bizarre ways. Even if the exact scenario they are describing is clearly false, it doesn't mean they aren't experiencing very real physical symptoms.
38Reminds me of an episode of one of those medical shows where a nonverbal autistic kid keeps trying to tell everyone he's got worms in his eyes but he can only tell them by drawing the worms so it just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines on paper.
Or shutter island when DiCaprio is talking about his dead wife saying she had a bug in her brain before going crazy and killing their kids.
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I hate you 😵💫
22"I ate you"
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I felt that just by reading it, thank you very much.
11Then they'd have to use anesthesia when doing brain surgery
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Fuck's sake. I always thought brain worms was one of my irrational fears.
43I love this bit, best news article in ages
That poor patient, she was so courageous and wonderful,” Senanayake said. “You don’t want to be the first patient in the world with a roundworm found in pythons and we really take our hats off to her. She’s been wonderful.
20That's what the worms want you to think
16Well there is brain eating amoeba as well, which is why I'm now afraid of swimming in random bodies of water
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"The patient resides near a lake area inhabited by carpet pythons. Despite no direct snake contact, she often collected native grasses, including warrigal greens, from around the lake to use in cooking, Senanayake said.
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens."
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34Takes "touch grass" to a new level
27Worm Level ~
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Excuse me while I boil my food for a half hour.
32Never change Australia. Unless you want to become more deadly.
27You probably didn’t intend it but ‘deadly’ is also a word used in the Aboriginal community to mean something is good or awesome.
So this works on two levels.
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And she hasn't transformed into a mindflayer? She should harness her Illithid powers. The Absolute's clearly chosen her as a True Soul.
17I've never been to Australia, and yet this explains so much about me.
16so, can we make this a "in world-last discovery"?
13of course it was Australia
11The world is burning, I got worms in my brains
I guess Ashnikko wasn't being metaphorical with that line in Worms.
9Lol, if this was in America the lady would have been charged a billion dollars!
9Brain worms are a preexisting condition not covered by insurance.
7No, her insurance would have covered $280.
0Phew, only $999,999,720 left to pay
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how did it get there?
8It wiggled its way there.
4Mind Flayers put it there.
4oh I got the answer after reading the article. the lady gathers plants from an area where the snakes live to cook with, so they think maybe there were some live larve in some snake poop that she accidentally mixed into her cooking and ate
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Krikey...
8Are we sure it wasnt a brain slug?
7Pretty sure that's a yeerk friend. Brain slugs attach to the brain through the skull where they mount from the outside and they have little antenna.
Anybody remember what flavor of instant oatmeal you use against yeerks by any chance? I need to make a run to the store.
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This is news? I've had brainworms for years.
6It's mean to say a new kind of worm that's haven't infected human before.
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All natural from the grass she picked
5Check the worm for crabs. Normally these things make people smarter.
4how come no one has mention all aussie women have brain worm ?
2I’ll be playing games
1That is crazy isnt it.
1I have earworms.
Sunny days ... sweeping the clouds away ... On my way to where the air is sweet...
1Just visit the south. I'm fairly sure most people there have brainstorms
-6More of a slight drizzle
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