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After 17 years of shaking and headaches, a live worm just under 13 centimeters long was removed from the brain of a 23-year-old Chinese man.
As he said, he began to feel numbness in his hands and feet from the age of six, and he went to the hospital only after losing feeling in the upper right half. Doctors thought it was an infection caused by eating raw or semi-cooked exotic meat, such as frogs or snakes.
A patient named Chen told doctors that he began to experience tremors in his arms and legs 17 years ago and that he occasionally had headaches and nausea. As his parents had trouble moving their limbs, Chen ignored the symptoms and never went to the hospital believing it was a genetic problem. Finally, he sought help in 2015 after losing the sensation of pain in his upper body.
“I couldn’t feel my hand and I couldn’t lift it,” Chen said.
After the scan, doctors found a twisted parasite in the patient’s brain, and Chen was diagnosed with asparagus mansoni, a rare parasitic disease.
Although they are still determining the exact cause of his condition, doctors say his infection is the result of not drinking contaminated water or consuming undercooked bushmeat.
“Once a worm enters the body, it can cause serious infections. The parasite would ‘eat’ the brain and damage its function, causing dizziness in the hands and feet,” a medical worker told reporters.
Chen is now slowly and successfully recovering after doctors removed a worm from his brain, which was just under 13 centimeters long, and when it is estimated that it parasitized for about 17 years.
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