A live six-inch worm has been taken out from the brain of a 23-year-old Chinese woman after she suffered from severe headaches.
Revolting footage shows the white parasite wiggling in a bowl after it was removed from the patient.
Doctors suggested that such brain infection was a result of the consumption of unhygienic food, such as raw or half-cooked wild animal meat.
The worms normally come from raw meat, mostly seafood, which contains a lot of parasites,' the medic told Pear Video. 'Sometimes the worms get into a person's brain through the blood and develop there.'
The 23-year-old food lover admitted to the doctors that she once devoured a dish of frogs on a trip two years ago.
'Maybe because she was travelling, the restaurant [she visited] might be unhygienic or they might cook the food with unsanitary standards,' Dr Dai explained.
The woman is currently receiving treatment at the hospital and gradually recovering following the operation.
The Chinese resident, known by his surname Wang, recently went to a hospital in Suqian, Jiangsu province of eastern China after suffering difficulty in breathing for several months.
When the doctors asked about his dietary habits, Mr Wang said that he enjoyed having seafood, such as crayfish and river snails.
The food lover also confessed that he even gobbled down a raw snake gallbladder once before.
The patient was later diagnosed with paragonimiasis, a food-borne parasitic infection caused by lung fluke.
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