Some parasites can affect the eyes. Without treatment, this can lead to vision loss. Learn more about the types of eye parasites, their symptoms, and treatment options.

He went to the hospital, where an eye surgeon removed a worm 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) long from his eye. Taylor was diagnosed with loiasis, an infection caused by the Loa loa worm, also known ...

African eye worms can grow up to 7 centimeters long, making them probably the biggest parasite to visit our eyes. But, while alarming, these worms typically cause very little damage to the eye.

A species of worm that can infect human eyes has done it again, and this time it chose a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska. The woman is thought to be only the second human victim of these worms ...

He went to the hospital, where an eye surgeon removed a worm 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) long from his eye. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now Get the world’s most fascinating ...

A worm-like parasite lived in a woman's eye for two years, and doctors believe it entered her body after she ate crocodile meat. The infected 28-year-old woman, from the town of Basankusu in the ...

The take-home message for you and me is fairly simple: seek medical attention if your eyes are irritated and you don’t know why, or if you find, you know, worms in your eye.

A parasitic worm typically found in cattle has been discovered in a woman’s eye in what scientists have warned may be an “emerging zoonotic disease” in the US.