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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ocular parasitosis consistently perplexes ophthalmologists due to its varied and unpredictable presentations.

A species of worm that can infect human eyes has done it again, and this time it chose a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska. The woman is thought to be only the second human victim of these worms ever ...

Parasites which usually grow in cows infected a woman's eyes after she went for a trail run in California. The unnamed woman is thought to be the second human to be infected with the parasite known as ...

My second-worst experience thinking about insects in my eyes was a real-life encounter, when I jogged face-first into a cloud of gnats while running on a trail. I couldn’t shake the feeling that there ...

She is only the second known person to get the rare infection, which typically occurs in cows Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to ...

Yes, you read that title right. Worms in people's eyes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified them as Thelazia gulosa, a parasitic roundworm that typically grows between ...

Do you hate the feeling of getting an eyelash stuck in your eye? Well, there is something way worse that can get into your peepers. Meet Loa loa (literally meaning “worm worm” in Latin), also known as ...

The woman had just rounded a corner while running along a steep trail in coastal California in February 2018 when she charged face-first into an unpleasant surprise: a swarm of flies. The pesky bugs ...

(FOX NEWS) -- An Oregon woman with a rare eye infection that resulted in 14 tiny worms being removed may be the first human to have contracted a parasitic infection spread by flies, a scientific ...