NEW YORK (AP) -- An Oregon woman who had worms coming out of her eye is being called the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies. Fourteen tiny worms were removed from the left ...
Scientists have found over a dozen parasitic worms in the eyes of a black bear, renewing fears that humans could face an emerging danger from the tiny worms that can cause blindness. The black bear ...
In a rare and alarming medical case from rural India, a 35-year-old man visited an ophthalmologist due to blurry vision, only to discover a live parasitic worm moving inside his eye. The unusual case, ...
In a battle of bear versus exotic eye worm, the eye worm wins—and that's bad news for all of us. Researchers on Wednesday reported the first known infection of an exotic eye worm in a black bear in ...
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 ...
(TMX) – Scientists say a tiny, nocturnal worm that lives in the Mediterranean Sea has eyes so large that if a human had them, they “would need a big sturdy wheelbarrow and brawny arms to lug around ...
Marvelous eyes, but you be the judge of this sea critter’s beauty. Vanadis is a byname of the Norse goddess of love, Freya. Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such ...