Cordero had an eye procedure to have the tapeworm removed. During the procedure, Perez suctioned out a 3-millimeter (0.1 inches) tapeworm, along with tens of thousands of eggs, WFTS said.

If it died in the eye, the inflammation could cause Cordero to go blind. However, if it stayed alive, it could potentially release more larvae and travel to the brain. Fortunately, the tapeworm ...

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… ...

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Some eye parasites are larger than others. “ Loa loa takes the cake as being this great long worm up to 7 centimeters that will crawl over the surface of your eye when you least expect it ...

Adult tapeworms may reside in the small bowel for years. They reach 2 to 7 mm in length and produce up to 1000 proglottids; each contains about 50,000 eggs. The worm removed from Cordero’s eye ...

A woman who had experienced blurred vision was found to have a cyst filled with baby tapeworms behind her swollen eye. The 31-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital after suffering from ...

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.

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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.

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 ...