2y ago

Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain

arstechnica.com

It's the first time the snake parasite has been seen in a human, let alone a brain.

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2y ago

Makes sense to take extra precautions when foraging for food (Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain)

arstechnica.com /health/2023/08/australian-woman-has-3-inch-snake-parasite-pulled-from-her-brain/

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I’m tired of these MF snake parasites
On this MFn brain
New nightmare unlocked.
Its not a snake. Its a roundworm that infect snakes usually.
A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a wriggling 3-inch roundworm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman last year—which was quite the surprise to the woman's team of doctors and infectious disease experts, who had spent over a year trying to identify the cause of her recurring and varied symptoms.
the roundworm was one known to infect snakes—specifically carpet pythons endemic to the area where the woman lived—as well as the pythons' mammalian prey
Wake up babe, new nightmare just dropped
One thingI hate about doctors sometimes is that even when they dont know what is causing your illness they still give u some medication anyway. Read this:
She was diagnosed with an unexplained case of pneumonia and given a corticosteroid, prednisolone.
Fast forward towhemn they figured out her condition:
The prednisolone, an immunosuppressive drug, may have inadvertently helped the worm migrate and get into the central nervous system.
- I, too, hate that doctors do not have perfect knowledge of everything and sometimes make mistakes like humans.
  
  Its ok to make mistakes but if there is disease u don't understand and u know u don't understand, why give medication that maybe helpful or harmful instead of saying "I don't know".
- Do you think it makes sense to run all kinds of tests and scans whenever someone comes in with a headache? It's often impossible to be certain about the underlying illness so doctors have to make educates guesses. If it's probably a mundane problem, they're not going to continue digging just in case the patient might have a never-seen-before worm in their brain.
D=
Literal brain worms instead of figurative ones. And of course it's Australia.
I hate it when that happens.
Should have just used Ivermectin!
No. Fuck no. FUCK no. No. Just no.
Could she do the cool glowy eyes thing?

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