A tapeworm in your gut sounds horrifying enough, but imagine having a tapeworm in your eye. That's what happened to a man in Florida who initially thought he saw something moving across his vision ...

A meal of undercooked pork nearly cost one Florida man his vision after he contracted a brain-eating parasitic tapeworm that traveled to his eye. Sam Cordero blamed his Christmas ham feast for the ...

How tear-ible! Over 20 million Americans have dry eye disease, which means that their eyes don’t produce enough tears or ...

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses.

A Florida man experienced every pork lover’s nightmare when he gobbled an under-cooked piece of a hog — that left him with a brain-eating tapeworm squirming around his eyeball. “I see a… ...

Some gnarly eye parasites are accidental guests in the human body. For others, our peepers are prime real estate.

Image showing a woman's eye protruding because of a cyst caused by a tapeworm. New England Journal of Medicine 2020 They then examined the cyst and found multiple protoscolices, the pre-stage of ...

How about having many, many parasites in your brain, and parasites in your testicle and your eye? The New England Journal of Medicine published a case of an 18-year-old man who had all that.

A New York woman, 53, was left blind in one eye after wearing contact lenses in the pool, leading to her contracting a parasite, acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), that causes damage to the cornea.

Some parasites can affect the eyes. Without treatment, this can lead to vision loss. Learn more about the types of eye parasites, their symptoms, and treatment options.

An 18-year-old went to the hospital after suffering seizures, confusion and swelling above his eye. He later died of parasitic infection in his brain.