...and people just (naturally) cannot deal.
Abby Beckley from Oregon was experiencing a red, scratchy and irritated eye. Little did she know that she was infected by parasitic worms.
24 hours. I've gone 24 hours without reading the story of the "eye worms". I am trying to make it to never.
— Caren Lissner (@CarenLissner) February 13, 2018
Doctors were shocked when they realized she had Thelazia gulosa worms.
This particular breed are only known to be found in cattle, but it now seems (obviously) that these can now also infect humans.
According to Business Insider, she may have gotten infected through exposure to flies carrying the worms.
There are some things you just don’t need to know. Like that a woman had 14 worms removed from her eye
— Tanya Chris (@tanyachrs) February 13, 2018
