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Worm Found In Woman's Brain: Rosemary Alvarez Has Worm in Brain

by Jon Azpiri | November 10, 2009 at 10:31 am

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Doctors in Phoenix found unusual after performing surgery on patient Rosemary Alvarez: a worm in her brain. Doctors thought Rosemary Alvarez may had a brain tumor after she had reported feeling numbness and blurred vision. As they performed surgery on Alvarez, they found a worm in her brain.

Doctors initially took two cat scans on Rosemary Alvarez and found nothing. They later took an MRI and saw something they believed had a brain tumor.

“Once we saw the MRI we realized this is something not good,” neurosurgeon, Dr. Peter Nakaji told the news station. “It's something down in her brain stem which is as deep in the brain as you can be.”

When they actually opened her up, they discovered a worm. Doctors removed the worm and Alvarez appears to have recovered. Of course, the real question is how did a worm get inside a woman's brain?

No one knows exactly where she picked up the worm –- doctors said worms can come from eating undercooked pork or spread by people who don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom, according to the report.

“It only takes one person who is spreading it constantly to get a lot of people exposed and some of those people are going to go on to develop this problem,” Nakaji said.

Alvarez, who is now healthy and has resumed normal activities such a playing ball with family in her backyard, said she hopes people learn this lesson from her story.

“Wash your hands, wash your hands,” she added.