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**Frazzled**

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455067,00.html

It's Not a Tumor - Doctors Find Worm In Woman's Brain Instead
Thursday , November 20, 2008

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Doctors in Arizona thought a Phoenix-area woman had a possible brain tumor, but it turned out there was something else penetrating her brain – a worm.

Rosemary Alvarez started experiencing numbness in her arm and blurred vision. She went to the emergency room twice and had a cat scan, but everything came up clear,
It wasn’t until doctors took a closer look at an MRI that they discovered something very disturbing.

“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.”

Alvarez was wheeled into surgery where Nakaji and his colleagues were expecting to remove a tumor, but they uncovered a worm instead.

On a video of the surgery, Nakaji can be heard chuckling after he made the discovery.

“I'm sure this is a very strange response for the people in the operating room,” he told MyFOXPhoenix.com. “But because I was so pleased to know that it wasn't going to be something terrible.”

Doctors removed the worm and don't believe Alvarez will have any lingering health problems. 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.

**Deadshane1**

"They wanna know us so they can kill us!"

**Anung Un Rama**

Can brain worms cause a Zombie Apocalypse?

**Platuan4th**

Wasn't this a House episode, too?

**Ahtman**

Platuan4th wrote:Wasn't this a House episode, too?

That was the first thing I thought, and yes it was.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Thats nothing.

There are strains of Fungus evolved to target *specific* insects in the Amazon. Once infected, they take over the Ants Brain, and force it to seek higher ground etc, and then burst out their heads. This is absolutely, 100% true.

Some infect Butterflies, others Fly's, some Ants, but always a ridicilously specific species. They don't work on others. I'll see if I can find a Youtube on it....http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o3t4v8PmY_Q&eurl=http://fascinatingthings.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/more-ant-mind-control/

**warpcrafter**

Damn you in the thrice-accursed medical profession, always spoiling my plans to spread the greatness of Grandfather Nurgle via cortex leeches! I'll get you next time...

**InyokaMadoda**

Frazzled wrote:

Doctors removed the worm and don't believe Alvarez will have any lingering health problems.

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.

So no lingering health problems then. Except the problem of repeating yourself repeating yourself.....

**Da Boss**

Behaviour altering parasites are fairly common. Usually, in humans, it's not intentional- it's just part of the pathology, caused by a cyst as above.
But there are flukes that can make ants crawl up onto grass to be eaten by sheep, andmake them go in the shade to avoid dessication, worms that can make shrimp swim in circles at the surface and glow red to attract seabirds, all sorts of things.
Brain bugs are real!
Hell, even toxoplasmosis (I think, caused by toxoplasma gondii) can cause altered behaviour in humans with compromised immune systems- nymphomania in women and hyper aggression in men.