Woman complained of forgetfulness and depression before doctors pulled out an 8cm roundworm normally found in pythons
Nature why are you like that?
Also based on the picture it was in the right pre frontal cortex. Interesting because most people won’t have much in terms of neurologic symptoms with a lesion here, outside of some subtle mood and executive dysfunction issues maybe. You won’t get like language problems, weakness, numbness, vision loss etc or more obvious symptoms like you would with brain damage other places. Worm found a stealthy spot in the brain to hide in.
Human induced. Habitat destruction drives more species into more human populated regions
animals many people wouldn’t get into contact with (be it with animal waste or any other way) happens way more often > chances of diseases formerly only present in certain animals adapting to have human hosts increases
Plot twist: this is an ARG for Larian’s new hit, Baldur’s Gate 3, which include brain worms as part of the main plot
For the bit about brain worms being plot important? If so, yep! It’s pretty much the premise of the intro; you’re kidnapped by Lovecraftian-esque beings called “mind flayers” who take you aboard their organic spaceship and have one of their tadpoles wriggle into your brain. Hijinks ensue, and can include tough choices such as “do you resist your violent urges or cut off the funny magic man’s hand?”, “should you condemn a child to death because they committed petty larceny?”, and “do you want to have fuck with the bear?”
So the worm was eating her memories and happiness.
Neat!
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That’s not world news
Unironically this; it really doesn’t belong in this sub (not the first file time I’ve seen something like this). I’m guessing the poster saw the word ‘Australian’ and thought that was enough.
