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Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain (arstechnica.com)

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It's the first time the snake parasite has been seen in a human, let alone a brain.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (8 children)

One thingI hate about doctors sometimes is that even when they dont know what is causing your illness they still give u some medication anyway. Read this:

She was diagnosed with an unexplained case of pneumonia and given a corticosteroid, prednisolone.

Fast forward towhemn they figured out her condition:

The prednisolone, an immunosuppressive drug, may have inadvertently helped the worm migrate and get into the central nervous system.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I, too, hate that doctors do not have perfect knowledge of everything and sometimes make mistakes like humans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Its ok to make mistakes but if there is disease u don't understand and u know u don't understand, why give medication that maybe helpful or harmful instead of saying "I don't know".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

How sure do you require a diagnosis to be before treatment can begin? 4 sigma?

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