Kicker: Brain worm

NICK EICHER, HOST: Here’s a peek behind the scenes here at WORLD. Yesterday, I was helping pull together our radio news called The Sift. Onize, whom you just heard, sent me a story about the brain worm.

Doctors in Australia revealed they’d pulled out a worm that had gotten into a woman’s brain. The worm was three inches long. This is a first. and I hope a last. It happens to pythons, but never people, until this case.

Dr. Sanjaya Senanayake:

SENANAYAKE: Something this large, 8 centimeters and wriggling around is something that had never before been seen in a human being and was certainly something we’ll never forget.

You and me both, doc.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, our friend Myrna was anchoring and when she came across this story wriggling around in her script. Welp, this was how she reacted.

MYRNA BROWN: (Loosely translated) Yikes!

EICHER: So Onize, no more creepy crawler stories for a blue moon, not counting tonight’s blue moon!

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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