A man in India can see clearly once again now that surgeons have removed a "fairly long live worm" that had crawled deep inside his left eye, a new case report says. The slender worm, which was later ...

The eerie painting depicts an image few of us would want to see in the mirror, let alone casting a shadow across our own field of vision: a pale, segmented worm slithering across an unblinking eyeball ...

An artist's parasitic worm infection has been immortalised in his work. Ben Taylor, an Australian-born painter who now resides in the UK, was infected with Loa loa filariasis after a visit to rural ...

FOX NEWS - A man who went to the doctor with reduced vision, redness, pain and floaters discovered he had a long, live worm living in it. The man was a fruit vendor in India, and he had been ...

The cover image of a painting by an artist, Ben Taylor was feature in the medical journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This image is sure to send chills down your spine ...

Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham.View full profile Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. Do you hate the feeling of getting an ...

A 36-year-old woman in Germany was surprised to find a "moving wormlike" creature trapped behind her eyelid. In a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers said the ...

Researchers at the LSTM's Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, and University of Buea, Cameroon have developed new models of the tropical eye worm, Loa loa for the development of new drugs against ...