A brain MRI was performed, which showed a right frontal lobe lesion, and she underwent an open biopsy. It was then that the 3-inch (8-cm) roundworm was discovered and pulled, alive and wriggling ...

When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery ... scientists involved in her case theorized that a carpet python might have spread the parasite via its feces into ...

SXSW: Snake hunters from around the world descend upon the Everglades to cull the invasive Burmese python population in ... with stabbing pythons through the brain; Toby Benoit, a tobacco-chewing ...

Australian woman found with parasitic roundworm in her brain caught from carpet python. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 08 / 230828105511.htm ...

“She had a very astute GP who thought, ‘Something’s not right here, I better do an MRI of the brain,’” says Sanjaya ... and other parasitic worms. The python parasite secretes substances ...