Author: Aimee Cunningham / Source: Science News
A 26-year-old woman felt something in her left eye. For days, she couldn’t shake the sensation.
But this was no errant eyelash or dive-bombing gnat.A week after that first irritation, the Oregon resident pulled a translucent worm, about a centimeter long, from her eye. With that harrowing feat, she became the first ever reported case of a human infestation with the cattle eyeworm, Thelazia gulosa. “This is a very rare event and exciting from a parasitological perspective,” says medical parasitologist Richard Bradbury of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. “Perhaps not so exciting…
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