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How did a worm get into someone's brain? It actually happened to Rosemary Alvrarez in Arizona. She had been experiencing blurred vision and numbness in her arm. Two CT scans showed nothing untoward, until doctors took a long, hard look. Then the neurosurgeons realized there was something there but they couldn't make out what it was. It was situated very deep inside the brain. Rosemary was wheeled into surgery where an operation began to remove a tumour. It was a shock yet pleasing to discover that it was a worm and not a tumour. How it got there will remain a mystery. It is thought to have been initially ingested. However, if this was the case it should have been digested by the stomach. Somehow it must have got into the blood stream and travelled to the brain. http://adventure--australia.blogspot.com/ http://tysaustralia.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/AdventureAustralia http://www.technorati.com/blogs/http://adventure--australia.blogspot.com

Anthropologist argue over finding dwarf humans in Indonesia. According to some, these people were small because of mineral deficiency. They are believed to be cretin offspring of normal mothers who did not have enough iodine and selenium in their diet. Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to a congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones; they do not have thyroid glands. The Indonesian group lived inland where they could not eat sea food, a natural source of iron. Mothers probably ate bamboo shoots and tubers which could have released cyanide into their bodies. When the people were found they were estimated to be three-feet tall and had brains roughly the size of grapefruits. They were classified as a new species of human, "Homo floresciensis". The new idea is just that - an idea. This does not prove that they are a not a new species of man. Humans living inland in other parts of the world did not suffer from iron and selenium deficiency.