🔴 Breaking News 1d ago · Luis Prada

Doctor Found 11 Parasitic Worms Living in a Man’s Eye (And Some Were Pregnant)

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Last year, I wrote about a 35-year-old man with worms swimming around in his eyeball. It sounds like the kind of thing that shouldn’t happen often, yet we are back here today with a similar case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, via Ars Technica. This time, our patient is a 71-year-old South Korean farmer who had mating worms in his eyes that had to be removed before they could give birth to larvae, which would’ve made matters significantly worse.



The farmer spent

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