This Woman Thought A Stray Eyelash Was Stuck In Her Eye—But It Was Really 14 Worms

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This Woman Thought A Stray Eyelash Was Stuck In Her Eye—But It Was Really 14 Worms
No seriously.
By Amanda Woerner For WomensHealthMag.com February 22, 2018
 

If you think pinkeye is bad, wait until you hear about what happened to Abby Beckley.

After dealing with irritation from what she thought was a stray eyelash for about a week, Abby took a closer look at her eye and noticed a translucent worm wiggling around in there, The Washington Post reports.

https://www.prevention.com/health/oregon-woman-worms-in-eye

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Case Report: Conjunctival Infestation with Thelazia gulosa: A Novel Agent of Human Thelaziasis in the United States
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
http://www.ajtmh.org/content/journals/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0870
12 February 2018

We report a case of thelaziasis in a 26-year-old female, acquired in Oregon. A total of 14 worms were removed from the patient’s left eye and were morphologically identified as being Thelazia gulosa. Until now, only two species of Thelazia have been implicated in causing human disease, Thelazia callipaeda in Asia and Europe and occasional reports of Thelazia californiensis from the United States of America. Here, we describe a third, previously unreported parasite of humans, T. gulosa (the cattle eyeworm) as an agent of human thelaziasis and the first reported case of human thelaziasis in North America in over two decades.