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An inch-long live worm was removed from a 35-year-old man’s eye in a complex surgery after he suffered vision problems in Bhopal. Doctors from AIIMS said the parasite, identified as Gnathostoma ...
In total, Ms. Beckley had 14 translucent worms removed from her eye, extracting one about a half-inch long on her own after experiencing eye irritation, according to a report from The Washington Post.
It's like something out of a science fiction movie - a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. It's like something out of a science fiction movie ...
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FLORIDA (KRON/CNN) – A Florida man is recovering from a surgery to remove a brain-eating parasitic worm that was living in his eye. Michael Poluska says he could see a little black dot moving ...
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 ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Doctors at a clinic in Kragujevac, central Serbia, have removed an 11 centimetre-long intestinal worm from a woman's eye socket ...
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 ...
But unfortunately for Sam Cordero, it wasn’t a movie and the race was on to surgically remove it from the Florida man’s eye. Taenia Solium, more commonly called a pork tapeworm, ...
FLORIDA (KRON/CNN) – A Florida man is recovering from a surgery to remove a brain-eating parasitic worm that was living in his eye. Michael Poluska says he could see a little black dot moving ...