But it wasn’t long before the 26-year-old woman became aware of something irritating her left eye. After several days, she finally went digging with her fingers… and plucked out a tiny worm.

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 ...

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 ...

Abby Beckley was salmon fishing in Alaska when she felt something in her left eye. “It felt like when an eyelash is poking you,” she says. But try as she might, the 26-year-old couldn’t find ...

Inflammation (in the circle added by the source) from the infection caused by Thelazia gulosa, a type of eye worm seen in cattle in the northern United States and southern Canada, inside of the ...

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 ...

The woman flushed her eye with water, when she noticed the likely source of irritation: a half-inch transparent worm in her right eye. She flushed it out, but then noticed a second worm in her eye ...

Abby Beckley said that she thought her eye was irritated by an eyelash back in 2016, but instead of a piece of hair, she pulled out a small, clear worm that was about a half an inch long and ...

CDC via AP-AP NEW YORK -- 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 ...

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 ...