Some gnarly eye parasites are accidental guests in the human body. For others, our peepers are prime real estate.

A tapeworm in your gut sounds horrifying enough, but imagine having a tapeworm in your eye. That's what happened to a man in Florida who initially thought he saw something moving across his vision ...

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A meal of undercooked pork nearly cost one Florida man his vision after he contracted a brain-eating parasitic tapeworm that traveled to his eye. Sam Cordero blamed his Christmas ham feast for the ...

Humans are occasionally accidentally infected by oral ingestion of tapeworm eggs with contaminated food or water or direct contact with host," Assimakopoulos said.

Some parasites can infect human eyes. Without treatment, these infections can lead to eye pain, vision problems, and in some cases, blindness.

Although tapeworms in humans usually cause few symptoms and are easily treated, they can sometimes cause serious, life-threatening problems.

The largest tapeworm ever recorded wasn't found in a human, however, and was in fact a giant 131-foot Tetragonoporus calyptocephalus — a type of tapeworm that lives deep inside the intestines of ...

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses.

Medically reviewed by Kimberly Brown, MDMedically reviewed by Kimberly Brown, MD Tapeworm segments in human stool look like tiny grains of white rice that may be moving. Tapeworm may be seen in ...

An 18-year-old went to the hospital after suffering seizures, confusion and swelling above his eye. He later died of parasitic infection in his brain.

Kennedy had been suffering from cognitive difficulties. Doctors initially suspected that he had a brain tumour, but it turned out to be a parasite infection – specifically, a pork tapeworm larva ...