Well. Here’s something you didn’t even know you needed to be terrified of. A healthy, 25-year-old Christian minister went to an Oakland, Calif., emergency room in September 2008, complaining of ...

A doctor examines a man with African Eye Worm in Uma, Democratic Republic of Congo, where river blindness control programmes have met huge barriers because of the prevalence of both diseases ...

Imagine looking into your irritated eye for a pesky eyelash, only to pull out a translucent, wiggling worm nearly a half inch long. "I looked at it, and it was moving," recalled 28-year-old Abby ...

Loa loa, known as the African eye worm, represents a significant parasitic threat in the forested and savannah regions of West and Central Africa. Traditionally viewed as a benign condition, ...

Efforts to eliminate river blindness, a debilitating disease affecting millions in Africa, will be hampered by another parasitic infection known as Loiasis, or 'African eye worm,' according to a study ...