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This Woman's Horrifying Selfies Helped Track the Parasitic Worm Crawling in Her Face
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:02:28
Publish Date: 2018-06-27 06:13:33
Description: A woman’s selfies helped her monitor the movements of an unwelcome guest: a roving parasitic worm living in her face. Thankfully, doctors were able to get the pesky pest—which she likely caught overseas from a mosquito—out of her body without any problems. The woman’s unsettling story was detailed in a case report published by her doctors this month in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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