WRAL

Doctors remove live worm from woman's tonsil

A woman in Japan got more than she bargained for after visiting the doctor with an irritated throat, as she was told that a worm was living inside her tonsil. The 25-year-old woman underwent a ...
WDSU

'It’s alive and moving': Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman’s brain in world first

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain.Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a ...
KRDO

‘Still alive and wriggling:’ Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman’s brain in world first

(CNN) — When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic ...