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  • Worm eats Cedar Rapids man’s retina

    09/20/2010 11:02:25 PM PDT · by iowamark · 33 replies · 1+ views
    Cedar Rapids Gazette ^ | 099/20/2010 | AP
    John Matthews loves to hunt turkeys and travel to foreign places like Mexico. During one of those adventures, something crawled inside his body. “It’s so small, you couldn’t even see it, feel it,” Matthews said. When two dark spots appeared in his vision and his eyesight became a little hazy, he headed to the doctor. “It was kind of like looking through a muddy lens,” he said. Doctors struggled to diagnose what was wrong with John’s left eye. Then, Dr. James Folk at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics found the problem. “Just by luck, the first picture we...
  • With clock ticking, doctors, pharmacists come to the rescue after 1-year-old eats raccoon feces

    06/19/2021 11:23:35 AM PDT · by billorites · 78 replies
    CBC News ^ | June 18, 2021 | Hannah Kost
    A southern Alberta couple who realized their infant had eaten raccoon feces found themselves racing against time to find a rare medication — and doctors and pharmacists across Western Canada mobilized to help them find it. Ashley Haughton learned raccoon scat can be extremely dangerous when she found it in her yard in Lethbridge, Alta., and researched how to dispose of it safely. Raccoons can carry a deadly form of roundworm called Baylisascaris procyonis, and the eggs live in their feces. An extremely rare parasitic infection can occur if humans ingest the eggs, which hatch into larvae, travel through the...