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Something strange just happened in a hospital in Canberra.

A doctor found a worm in a patient's brain.

The doctor's name was Dr Hari Priya Bandi.

She took the worm from the patient's brain.

It was eight centimetres long.

And it was alive - it moved.

The patient was a 64 year old Australian.

Before this, she felt ill.

She had a cough and stomach ache.

She kept forgetting things.

So she had a brain scan at hospital.

The image showed something was wrong.

The doctors decided to have a look.

Afterwards, scientists checked the worm.

It's an Ophidascaris robertsi and it usually lives in snakes.

They think the woman picked up some worm eggs when outside.

For scientists, this worm's a new thing.

In the last 30 years, there were 30 new diseases.

Most were like this - diseases from animals to people.

The number's increasing.

And it's increasing quickly.

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