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Worm invades man’s eyeball, leading doctors to suck out his eye jelly

Doctors performed a pars plana vitrectomy to remove a Gnathostoma spinigerum worm after it caused eight months of inflammation and vision problems in a 35-year-old man.

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These parasites are usually found in the skin, but they can invade anything.

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A Man's Eye Got Infested by a Worm, so Doctors Vacuumed Out the Eye Juices

Though the worm removal was successful, he experienced vision complications.

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Sluggish Worm Found in Man's Eye After Months of Blurry Vision

(MedPage Today) -- Ophthalmologists found a slow-moving parasite in the eye of a 35-year-old man from rural India. The man visited the ophthalmology clinic after redness and blurry vision in his left eye had persisted for 8 months, reported Samendra...

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Worm invades man’s eyeball, leading doctors to suck out his eye jelly

These parasites are usually found in the skin, but they can invade anything.

·United States
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