Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first

In a world first, scientists say that an 8cm worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. The "string-like structure" was pulled from the patient's damaged frontal lobe tissue during surgery in Canberra last year. The red parasite could have been there for up to two months. "Everyone in that operating theatre got the shock of their life when [the surgeon] took some forceps to pick up an abnormality and the abnormality turned out to be a wriggling, live 8cm light red worm," said Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious diseases doctor at Canberra Hospital.

tips

frontal lobe 额叶

lobe 叶；脑叶

tissue 棉织物；组织

surgery 外科手术

parasite 寄生虫

theatre 戏院

operating theatre 手术台

surgeon 外科医生

forceps 镊子

wriggle 蠕动

infection 传染