DOCS PULL OUT 14 WORMS FROM A WOMAN’S EYE

Washington, Feb. 13: A US woman has become the world’s first known person to get an eye infestation of a worm known to only affect cattle, say doctors who extracted 14 worms — each half an inch long — from a patient.

Scientists reported the case of the first known instance of a human infection with Thelazia gulosa, a type of eye worm. These worms are spread by flies that feed on tears. “Cases of eye worm parasitic infections are rare in the US, and this case turned out to be a species of the Thelazia that was never reported in humans,” said Richard Bradbury, from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.