{"id":20514,"date":"2020-07-14T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/worm-found-in-tonsil-of-japanese-woman-with-sore-throat"},"modified":"2020-07-14T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:05:42","slug":"worm-found-in-tonsil-of-japanese-woman-with-sore-throat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20514","title":{"rendered":"Worm found in tonsil of Japanese woman with sore throat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near-4cm-long nematode roundworm is thought to have come from raw fish<\/p>\n<p>An unpleasant sensation at the back of the throat can be a sign that a cold is on the way. But for one Tokyo woman, the cause of the pain was not a sniffle but a live worm that had lodged itself inside one of her tonsils.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at St Luke\u2019s International hospital in the Japanese capital removed the long black worm with tweezers after the patient had complained of throat pain and irritation, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajtmh.org\/content\/journals\/10.4269\/ajtmh.20-0175\">case study<\/a> published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/worm-found-in-tonsil-of-japanese-woman-with-sore-throat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near-4cm-long nematode roundworm is thought to have come from raw fishAn unpleasant sensation at the back of the throat can be a sign that a cold is on the way. But for one Tokyo woman, the cause of the pain was not a sniffle but a live worm that had l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,1209,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-food-safety","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20515,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20514\/revisions\/20515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}