An Indian woman needed nasal surgery to remove a long, white worm that had lodged itself just behind her cornea. Scientists identified it as a Loa loa worm, which is typically found in West Africa but is extremely rare in India. The doctors administered a topical anaesthesia to paralyse the worm, and then removed it by going through the patients nose. The white, wriggling mass was identified as a female Lua lua worm, which is also known as the 'African eye worm', because it commonly migrates to the eye. For example, a 48-year old man man from Assam had a male Lua lua worm removed in 2005, as did a woman from the Kumayun district in the Himalayas.

Source: Daily Mail March 26, 2018 13:41 UTC