Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailA woman pulled 14 WORMS out of her eye in the world's first case of a human contracting an eye infestation only ever seen before in cattle . (Image: REUTERS)Twenty days after pulling the first worm from her eye, Abby discovered the final wiggling worm - and she has not found another one since. "This is only the 11th time a person has been infected by eye worms in North America, " said Richard Bradbury, who is the team lead for the CDC's Parasite Diagnostics and Biology Laboratory. "It's a cattle worm that somehow jumped into a human." The study's lead author said it was thought there were only two different species of eye worms that infected humans worldwide - Thelazia gulosa is now the third.

Source: Daily Mirror February 13, 2018 09:07 UTC