Chinese doctors recently saved a man’s life after removing a squirming 18-cm-long worm that had taken residence in his brain years after swallowing raw snake organs.
The lucky man, identified only as Li by Chinese news media, was recently rushed to a hospital in Hunan after he started experiencing sudden blackouts, seizures, and foaming at the mouth. His troubles had begun about a year ago when he experienced a sensation of a foreign object in his eye, described as a mosaic-like thing appearing in his vision. He sought medical attention, and while the ophthalmologist found nothing out of the ordinary after examining him, an MRI scan revealed a foreign object behind his eyes. However, because the vision problem had disappeared, he refused to undergo surgery and have the foreign object removed. Little did he know that his decision would allow an uninvited guest to settle and grow in his brain.
