When doctors in Mexico peered into a 17-year-old boy's eye, they got a squirming surprise: a flatworm wriggling in and out of the teen's eyeball.

This Thelazia gulosa worm was removed from the woman's eye. (Image credit: Richard S. Bradbury, et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2019) Doctors don't know for sure how the Nebraska woman got the ...

A Redditor posted to the r/Wellthatsucks subreddit after discovering a worm in the last bites of their halibut, and Redditors ...

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.

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 ...

Close-up of the parasitic infection in Brooklyn McCasland's eye. Kennedy News and Media “I’m thankful that we know exactly what it is and I’m able to start the correct treatment,” she said.

Over the span of 20 days, she had 14 wiggling worms in total pulled from her eye. Most were dead, noted the specialist treating her, because they didn't have another face fly to spread to.

A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind ...

Parasitic worms live in and feed off living hosts. Learn about parasitic worms in humans, ... even with the naked eye, within the first few hours of them falling asleep. Colonoscopy.

In a battle of bear versus exotic eye worm, the eye worm wins—and that's bad news for all of us. ... The bear had at least 13 adult parasitic worms pulled from its eyes, ...

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 ...

Many are invisible to the human eye, such as the malarial parasite, but some worm parasites can reach over 35 centimeters in length. Parasites are not a disease, but they can spread diseases.