...Oregon Woman Pulls Out Over a Dozen Parasitic Worms From Eye, Leading to Unique Discovery

KTLA ^

[BenLurkin]

Imagine looking into your irritated eye for a pesky eyelash, only to pull out a translucent, wiggling worm nearly a half inch long.

“I looked at it, and it was moving,” recalled 28-year-old Abby Beckley of Grants Pass, Oregon. “And then it died within about five seconds.”

Now, imagine doing that not once but 14 times.

That’s what Beckley endured over a three-week period in August 2016. Her story, published Monday as a case report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a historic one:

“This is only the 11th time a person has been infected by eye worms in North America, ” explained lead author Richard Bradbury, who is the team lead for the CDC’s Parasite Diagnostics and Biology Laboratory. “But what was really exciting it that it is a new species that has never infected people before. It’s a cattle worm that somehow jumped into a human.”

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Sounds damned neart giddy about it.

[TADSLOS]

[Mastador1]

Parasite: something that lives off or sucks the blood out of someone/something else. Worm: spinless creature that knows no useful purpose....so that being said,... A parasitic worm HAS to be a Liberal! :-)

You had it at parasite

[SaraJohnson]

Interesting and strange.

[piasa]

None... they need an intermediate host to go from one critter to another...the face fly.

[Salvation]

If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.