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A New England woman thought she was just dealing with jet lag after an extended vacation, but medical experts later diagnosed her symptoms as an infection from brain worms.

The medical correspondent then pulled out a brain model to explain how the parasite is removed from the human brain. KEILAR: We have CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, joining us.

The adult worms, which grow to approximately 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) in length, live for about a year, with female worms shedding up to 20,000 eggs per day.