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Ick! U.S. Woman Has First Case of Human 'Eye Worm'
« on: February 14, 2018, 03:01:02 pm »

Ick! U.S. Woman Has First Case of Human 'Eye Worm'

By Dennis Thompson

HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine going to the mirror and finding a small translucent worm crawling across the surface of your eye.

The first of many.

That's what happened to an avid 26-year-old outdoorswoman from Oregon, who recently became the first human ever infected by a type of eye worm previously seen only in cattle.

https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/20180212/ick-us-woman-has-first-case-of-human-eye-worm#1