A 23-year-old woman had a live 6-inch worm removed from her brain.
The Chinese woman suffered from severe headaches before she went to a local clinic in Jiangsu province of eastern China. She was then transferred to a Nanjing hospital after she had a seizure.
After Xiao Yi tested positive for being infected with parasites, doctors performed brain surgery on her.
“During the operation, we found a creeping, long bug that was over 10 centimetres. It was white and live, like a noodle,” Dr. Dai Wei of the Gulou Hospital of Nanjing University said.
“It was still moving around when we took it out completely.”
According to reports, the worm was measured to be six inches (15 centimeters) long.
The doctor said that such infections are usually caused by eating wild animal meat that is not cooked properly or still raw.
Dr. Dai told Pear Video: “(The worms) normally come from raw meat, mostly seafood, which contains a lot of parasites. Sometimes the worms get into a person’s brain through the blood and develop there.”
Xiao Yi admitted that she once ate a dish of frogs on a trip about two years ago.
“Maybe because she was travelling, the restaurant [she visited] might be unhygienic or they might cook the food with unsanitary standards,” the doctor added.
Xiao Yi is now recovering at the hospital.
This comes after another Chinese exotic food lover, known by his surname Wang, went to a hospital in Suqian, Jiangsu province after experiencing difficulty breathing for many months.
Mr. Wang told doctors that he had enjoyed eating river snails and crayfish, and he even ate a raw snake gallbladder.
He was then diagnosed with paragonimiasis, a food-borne parasitic infection caused by lung fluke.
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