Good News Everyone: We Found a New Species of Roundworm That Can Infect Our Brains

Image credit: r.classen via Shutterstock. Article by Ed Cara. Gizmodo – August 29, 2023.

Here’s some extra material for your nightmares: In a case report out this week, a group of scientists say they’ve found a new species of roundworm that’s capable of infesting our brains—one that normally plagues snakes. The discovery was made when they extracted a living worm from an Australian woman’s head during surgery. Thankfully, the woman’s parasitic invasion appears to have been successfully treated. […]

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