TAMPA, Florida -- It's like something out of a science-fiction movie -- a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. But for one Florida man, it was reality. ***Warning: This story contains ...

Parasites are dangerous creatures that survive off their hosts. Here are 12 common parasites that feed on the human body.

Parasitic eye worms may have crawled into the eye of a trail runner while she was jogging in California’s Carmel Valley. The runner, a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska who spends her winters in the ...

In the bustling city of Beijing, China, a 41-year-old woman would leave her home shared with her pet cat and head to work in an office. But in the summer of 2022, her day was interrupted by the ...

It is like something out of a science-fiction movie - a brain-eating parasitic tapeworm living in your eye. Unfortunately for Sam Cordero, it wasn't a movie and the race was on to surgically remove it ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A woman had experienced eye redness and itchiness for about a month before doctors pinpointed the ...

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, visited Alabama with friends in August when she ...