Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) and Canberra Hospital have reported the first-ever case of a human infected with a parasitic roundworm originating from a carpet python.

A missing woman has been found dead inside the stomach of a python in Indonesia, according to multiple reports.

Roundworm from carpet python removed from Canberra woman’s brain An 8cm worm has been pulled alive from an Australian woman’s brain during surgery in what’s believed to be a world-first.