This is the worm-like creature which turned out to be a three inch parasite that had been living and moving around in the brain of an 11-year-old boy.
Liang Liao had been repeatedly complaining of headaches and started to suffer seizures and was taken to the Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai, eastern China.
After being admitted, surgeons started tests and carried out x-rays.
It was then that they discovered the live parasite, which measured 8cm, moving around inside the boy's skull and they immediately operated to remove it.
His father Liang Chao said that his son had always been buying snacks from street traders and rarely ate home cooked meals.
He added that he suspects that it was the street food, which was contaminated and caused the infection.
The 42-year-old said: 'I don't know why he ate that disgusting stuff, he once told me he had eaten grilled snake of all things.
'And I doubt that many of the other things they claimed to be serving him really what they seem to be.
'He is only 11, he wouldn't have known the difference.'
Doctors eventually identified the parasite as a sparganosis, which can occur in humans who consume infected meat from frogs, snakes or other small mammals that have not been properly cooked.
In some cases humans can be infected through eating raw pork.
The boy was taken to the Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai, eastern China, pictured, where they discovered the parasite after he complained of headaches and suffered seizures
The parasite enters the body through the digestive tract and targets the brain and sometimes the eye.
It can often lead to extensive brain damage or even death if it isn't caught early enough.
The infection usually only infects dogs and cats, although very occasionally humans can be affected.
The case comes just days after a man in Britain became the first person in the UK to be infected by the parasite.
Surgeons at the Addenbroke's Hospital in Cambridge removed the worm and warned had if it been a more aggressive species, it could have laid eggs, which then feed off the brain as they grow.
The worm which originates in the Far East, is extremely rare, with just 300 cases recorded worldwide since 1953.
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