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 ...

A 35-year-old man from a rural area in India went to the eye doctor because his left eye had been red and blurry for eight months. What the doctors found was a complete shock: a worm was slowly moving ...

In the bustling city of Beijing, China, a 41-year-old woman would leave her home shared with her pet cat and head to work in an office. But in the summer of 2022, her day was interrupted by the ...

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 ...

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, visited Alabama with friends in August when she ...

A mass that had been growing in a woman's eye for two years turned out to be a parasite that sometimes passes from reptiles to humans, doctors say. The doctors flagged contaminated crocodile meat as a ...

Earlier this week, we shared the remarkable story of Abby Beckley — and her run-in with eye worms. When this young woman felt something crawling around in her eyes, she had the presence to remove said ...

A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection Kennedy News and Media Brooklyn McCasland was infected with a parasite in her ...