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 ...

TAMPA, Florida -- It's like something out of a science-fiction movie -- a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. But for one Florida man, it was reality. ***Warning: This story contains ...

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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 Abby ...

It is like something out of a science-fiction movie - a brain-eating parasitic tapeworm living in your eye. Unfortunately for Sam Cordero, it wasn't a movie and the race was on to surgically remove it ...

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 ...