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Lots of questions. Did it hatch there or got in somehow? Why only one? Did it cause brain damage? Did it eat the brain?
by quickthrower2 3y ago
Lots of questions. Did it hatch there or got in somehow? Why only one? Did it cause brain damage? Did it eat the brain?
- _kulang 3y agoIt’s heavily implied to have caused the brain damage as it was associated with the lesion. Seeing as it is a worm, it would have to have been eating the brain
- Alifatisk 3y agoI think this part partially answers your question on how it got there > Australian parasitology expert Mehrab Hossain said she suspected the woman became an "accidental host" after using the foraged plants - contaminated by python faeces and parasite eggs - for cooking. They also wrote about some damage in the brain, but I don’t know if the damage was relevant. > The "string-like structure" was pulled from the patient's damaged frontal lobe during surgery in Canberra last year. I don’t know if it was a brain eating parasite but the mentioned which type of parasite it was so you could probably look into it.