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

    02/12/2018 3:34:16 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 45 replies
    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...