The knee throbbed like an electric shock, the woman accidentally discovered a strange disease

Not only serious but also horrible, all because of the source of the disease.

A 35-year-old French woman, who has never been too far away, never left the country, and the strangest and most dangerous animal she has ever contacted are cows on a farm near her home.

But on a beautiful day in late 2017, she suddenly found it difficult to play her favorite sport of riding. A few months later, she clearly felt her legs were weak, and sometimes the pain inside was like an electric shock.

She felt the legs somewhat weak, and sometimes the pain in her body was like an electric shock.

Thought is okay, but her legs are weak and she keeps falling. When it was time to go to the examination, it turned out to be signs of a very terrible disease.

She was assigned to the emergency room at the University of Dijon Hospital (France). Some early investigations showed that the ability of the legs to sense has been greatly affected, while blood tests confirm that some kind of infection is occurring.

The doctor then decided to take magnetic resonance imaging, and saw part of the story. In the report published in Medicine magazine, this woman's 9th thoracic vertebra has a tumor , and it causes the nerve impulse to transmit down her legs to a lot of obstacles.

The tumor comes from a species of tapeworm, named Echinococcus granulosus.

The quick treatment was decided: the woman had surgery to remove the tumor, then implanted an artificial vertebrae into it. However, right at this step, all problems have been clarified, and it makes many people shudder.

The tumor turned out to come from a species of tapeworm, called Echinococcus granulosus. They are parasitic on dogs and some animals such as sheep, cows, camels . Humans are not ideal habitats, because they cannot reproduce on our bodies. However, this does not mean that humans are safe from these tapeworms.

According to CDC data (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), people are often infected when playing with dogs infected with flukes, or eating vegetables grown on land with fluked eggs.

When entered into the human body, they cause cystic echinococcosis , which can gradually invade important organs such as the liver or lungs, and especially the central nervous system - the spine itself. .

As for the woman, luckily everything was fine after that. The surgery was successful, the doctors also removed the parasites, and nine months later did not see any signs of the disease anymore.