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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. Well, we've had a world first

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Speaker 1: in Canberra. It was in an infectious Diseases ward. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what's happened. This woman. She had a variety

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Speaker 1: of symptoms that started with some abdominal pain and diarrhea,

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Speaker 1: a constant dry cough, fever, night sweats that could be anybody,

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Speaker 1: let's face it. She also then got forgetfulness and depression

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Speaker 1: that also could be anybody. She had an MRI scan

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Speaker 1: of her brain and it reveals abnormalities requiring surgery. When

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Speaker 1: they went into her brain, what they found was astonishing.

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Speaker 1: An eight centimeter long parasitic round worm. An eight centimeter

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Speaker 1: long worm in your brain is eight centimeters like from

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Speaker 1: your thumb to the tip of your forefeet exactly. That

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Speaker 1: curled up inside your brain. How did it get there? Well,

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Speaker 1: this is the thing. This is why it's so unusual

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Speaker 1: because this is a worm normally found in pythons. So

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Speaker 1: what they think This is the very first time ever

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Speaker 1: this parasite has been found in a human. This patient

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Speaker 1: resides near a lake in Canberra inhabited by carpet pythons,

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Speaker 1: so even though she had no direct snake contact, she

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Speaker 1: often collected native grasses some of the local greens from

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Speaker 1: there to use in her cooking. So what they are

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Speaker 1: hypothesizing is that a python may have shed this parasite

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Speaker 1: via its feces into the grass. She may have touched

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Speaker 1: the grass and transferred the eggs to food or kitchen utensils.

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Speaker 1: What has been said is this poor woman, woman, this

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Speaker 1: is a quote. She's so courageous and wonderful. You don't

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Speaker 1: want to be the first patient in the world with

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Speaker 1: a round worm found in pythons that we normally now

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Speaker 1: has gone to your brain. We take our hats off.

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Speaker 1: That's ironic to her. She's been wonderful. It is. It's

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Speaker 1: the last of us. That's what happened in the last

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Speaker 1: of us. What happened little the virus gets into the people. Well,

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Speaker 1: more and more people are getting things from animals. They're

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Speaker 1: called zoonotic diseases. We're at greater risk. About seventy five

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Speaker 1: of newer emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic. That's not the

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Speaker 1: only animal story I have for you. There's more. This

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Speaker 1: has happened. This has happened in the US. No well

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Speaker 1: for you, but a US outbreak has investigated. There's been

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Speaker 1: a US outbreak that has led to an investigation. Twenty

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Speaker 1: six people have been sick and nine hospitalized in a

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Speaker 1: salmonella outbreak linked to tiny turtles. The CDC advisors not

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Speaker 1: to kiss or hug turtles. People don't drink or eat

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Speaker 1: around them because they've got terrible manners. They can spread

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Speaker 1: salmonella bacteria to the mouth. So they say keep turtles

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Speaker 1: out of the kitchen and other areas. Vod is preparedal

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Speaker 1: can see what's wrong with people. Don't have a pizza

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Speaker 1: with Raphael Donnaatella Leonardo and Michelangelo. And that's not all

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Speaker 1: they said. Turtles aren't the only animals at the CDC.

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Speaker 1: They don't want people to kiss. Other high risk animals

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Speaker 1: include cats, dogs, I'm ignoring that lizards, chickens, ducks, hedgehogs,

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Speaker 1: and frogs. They don't turn into princes people. They give

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Speaker 1: you salmon eca. Don't kiss hedgehogs and frogs. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe that this is a safety announcement coming out from

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Speaker 1: the Center for Disease. Don't kiss anything, don't eat grass,

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Speaker 1: and don't kiss. Don't invite a turtle into your kitchen.

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Speaker 1: How many times do I have to tell you