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Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain (arstechnica.com)

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It's the first time the snake parasite has been seen in a human, let alone a brain.

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[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

One thingI hate about doctors sometimes is that even when they dont know what is causing your illness they still give u some medication anyway. Read this:

She was diagnosed with an unexplained case of pneumonia and given a corticosteroid, prednisolone.

Fast forward towhemn they figured out her condition:

The prednisolone, an immunosuppressive drug, may have inadvertently helped the worm migrate and get into the central nervous system.