The world's first case of a new parasitic infection in humans has been discovered by researchers who detected a live eight-centimeter roundworm from a carpet python in the brain of a 64- year-old ...

In a first-ever case worldwide, doctors in Canberra, Australia, extracted a wriggling worm usually found in carpet pythons from the brain of a woman who suffered more than a year from a host of ...

Researchers have discovered the world’s first case of a new human parasitic infection, pulling a live roundworm picked up from a carpet python from the brain of an Australian woman. They say the case ...