“Our clinical and epidemiologic findings show that the zoonotic eye fluke P. lacrymosus can infect humans in South America.

A trail run near the California coast may have led a woman to contract a horrifying infection with a rare parasitic eye worm. The woman is only the second person known to have contracted this ...

Imagine looking into your irritated eye for a pesky eyelash, only to pull out a translucent, wiggling worm nearly a half inch long. "I looked at it, and it was moving," recalled 28-year-old Abby ...

NEW DELHI (WKRC) - A man from rural India endured blurry vision and redness in his left eye for eight months before doctors discovered a worm in his eye. The New England Journal of Medicine published ...

For eight months, a 35-year-old man in India was bothered by his left eye. It was red and blurry. When he finally visited an ophthalmology clinic, it didn’t take long for doctors to unearth the cause.

A 35-year-old man from a rural area in India went to the eye doctor because his left eye had been red and blurry for eight months. What the doctors found was a complete shock: a worm was slowly moving ...

TAMPA, Florida -- It's like something out of a science-fiction movie -- a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. But for one Florida man, it was reality. ***Warning: This story contains ...

Here’s something to remind you that things could always be worse. A case study this month documents a man whose eye became infested with a parasitic worm. Doctors in India detailed the real-life body ...

A 35-year-old man visited the doctor after experiencing blurry vision and redness in his left eye for eight months, only for doctors to discover he had a worm in his eye. On Saturday, Aug. 9, The New ...