Loiasis, or African eye worm disease, is spread by deerflies. Learn its symptoms, life cycle, treatment, and where it's found ...

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 ...

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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.

Talk about the souvenir from hell. A recent case report documents how a woman’s overseas trip to South America left her playing host to a worm parasite stuck in her eye. Researchers in Chile and ...

The symptoms: The patient went to the hospital because she felt like there was something stuck in her right eye. When doctors looked at her eye, they noted that its outer surface, the cornea, appeared ...