Some parasites can affect the eyes. Without treatment, this can lead to vision loss. Learn more about the types of eye parasites, their symptoms, and treatment options.

In this case, a parasite had embedded itself under the conjunctiva, or clear outer membrane, of the patient's left eye. There, it had grown to about 0.4 inch (10 millimeters) long. You may like ...

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, ...

A worm-like parasite lived in a woman's eye for two years, and doctors believe it entered her body after she ate crocodile meat. The infected 28-year-old woman, from the town of Basankusu in the ...

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, ...

DOCTORS found parasites burrowed into a woman’s cornea after she made a common mistake while swimming in a pool. Maureen Cronin first thought she had an eyelash stuck in her eye, but the pain… ...

A woman has been left blind in her right eye after parasites burrowed into her cornea while swimming with contact lenses in. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, said she was in the ‘worst pain she’d ever ...

DOCTORS were shocked to discover a woman’s painless lump in her eye was actually a parasite that comes from snakes. The 28-year-old, from the Congo, Africa, didn’t complain of any pain,… ...

Armillifer grandis is a parasite known to infect humans in Africa. In a medical first, doctors discovered a rare parasite living in a woman's eye for two years, and the reason behind this extreme ...

A New York woman, 53, was left blind in one eye after wearing contact lenses in the pool, leading to her contracting a parasite, acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), that causes damage to the cornea.

A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection Kennedy News and Media Brooklyn McCasland was infected with a parasite ...

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, visited Alabama with friends in August ...