Worm invades man’s eyeball, leading doctors to suck out his eye jelly
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav For eight months, a 35-year-old man in India was bothered by his left eye. It was red and blurry. When he finally visited an ophthalmology clinic, it didn’t take long for doctors to unearth the cause. In a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors report that they first noted that the eye was bloodshot and inflamed, and the pupil was dilated and fixed. The man’s vision in the eye was 20/80. A quick look inside his eye revealed it was all due to a small worm, which they watched “moving sluggishly” in the back of his eyeball. To gouge out the parasitic pillager, the doctors performed a…
