Quirky China: doctor removes worm from woman’s brain, under-fire gamer dyes her skin black

Surgeons in southern China have removed an 8cm-long worm from a woman’s brain after she suffered from multiple mystery health problems. The 61-year-old had brain surgery at a hospital in Guangdong province in early April, the Shenzhen Evening News reported. Doctors said the existence of the parasite may have been due to an experience the woman had when she was young. She recalled that when she was a teenager, her mother caught a frog in the wild and inserted the croaker’s leg into her tooth...