Surgeons in southern China have removed an 8cm-long worm from a woman’s brain after she suffered from multiple mystery health problems.
The 61-year-old had brain surgery at a hospital in Guangdong province in early April, the Shenzhen Evening News reported.
Doctors said the existence of the parasite may have been due to an experience the woman had when she was young.
Doctors in surgical gowns and masks prepare to operate on the woman’s brain. Photo: QQ.com
She recalled that when she was a teenager, her mother caught a frog in the wild and inserted the croaker’s leg into her tooth cavity in a bid to cure a bout of toothache.
Local folklore was of the belief that a frog’s leg could “fish out tooth worms”.
The woman said later she frequently drank raw mountain spring water and also tried snake wine as a remedy.
In 2021, she underwent lumbar vertebra surgery. After that, she often felt numbness in her arms, legs and scalp.