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‘Eye Worms’: Doctors Identify First Case of Cattle Parasites in Humans

GROSS

It took a team of scientists and a 1928 paper in a German journal to identify the floaty, clear worms swimming in Abby Beckley’s left eye.

Tanya Basu
Tanya Basu 

Senior Editor, Science

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Tanya Basu

Tanya Basu

Senior Editor, Science

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