article_snippet: Unaware: Yin Meng, 29, had an 8cm-long parasite growing inside Yin Meng brain, which caused Yin Meng to collapse .
article_snippet: A hospital spokesman said: 'Yin Meng was found to be suffering from a parasitic infection called Sparaganosis which had been growing inside Yin Meng for years. '
article_snippet: It was attacking Yin Meng nervous system.'
article_snippet: Sparaganosis can be contracted by drinking contaminated water, or eating a carrier of the infection such as a frog or a snake.
article_snippet: A hospital spokesman said: 'Yin Meng was found to be suffering from a parasitic infection called sparaganosis' Harm: The parasite (pictured) was attacking Yin Meng's nervous system, triggering seizures and headaches .
article_snippet: Yin Meng said that when Yin Meng was a child, around five-years-old, Yin Meng used to catch and eat live frogs with Yin Meng grandmother, which must be how Yin Meng contracted the parasitic infection,' when she was a child, around five-years-old, she used to catch and eat live frogs with her grandmother, which must be how she contracted the parasitic infection said. '
article_snippet: Yin Meng added: 'The damage to Yin Meng nervous system is quite extensive but we hope we can prevent her nervous system from being permanent as the brain has an amazing capacity to heal being permanent.'
highlights_snippet: Hospital tests revealed something was growing inside Yin Meng brain .
  
highlights_snippet: Sparaganosis can be caused by eating live frogs, as Yin had as a child .