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A man who went to see his doctor after suffering headaches and experiencing strange smells was found to have been living for more than four years with a rare parasitic worm in his brain. The ribbon-shaped tapeworm was found to have burrowed from one side of the 50-year-old man’s brain to the other. Surgeons only discovered the 1cm worm while carrying out a biopsy at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge and took it to parasite experts, who identified it as Spirometra erinaceieuropaei.
Only 300 cases of infection by this parasite in humans have been reported since 1953. The unfortunate patient, who was of Chinese descent but lived in East Anglia, is thought to have picked up the parasite while on a visit to China, where he visited regularly. Exactly how he came to be infected is not known, but he could have picked it up from infected meat or water and the worm then burrowed through his body to his brain. Rather than living on the brain tissue of its unknowing victim, the parasite is thought to have simply absorbed nutrients from the man’s brain through its body as the worm has no mouth.
To celebrate festive Lughnasadh, for this joust, we surgically picked three winners. They are: Foozball 3000, Mottamort and Mister 44.
Well done. Please pick for yourself one of the bags that we have conveniently draped over this leprechaun:
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