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just discovered a live wriggling worm in this patient s brain. it s something we ve never seen before. help us out. and as the on call infectious diseases physician at the time, my laboratory colleague involved me and we got to work trying to determine what this worm actually was so we could treat this patient. and we look through all the possibilities and realize that it might be outside the realms of normal human parasites and canberra being a small place, we were able to send it up the road to the csiro, where an animal parasitologist confidently made the diagnosis. what we believe has happened is this so normally this parasite lives in carpet pythons, which are found all over australia. the eggs of the parasite get into the python. feces, which small mammals or marsupials normally or accidentally consume when they re