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When a 64-year-old woman from south-eastern New South Wales was admitted to her local hospital the resultant discovery of the source of her pain was, to say the least, unexpected: doctors found a 8cm-long parasitic roundworm “alive and wriggling” in her brain in a case believed to be a world first.
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