Oregon Woman Catches 14 Cattle Worms in Left Eye
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Wear goggles, ladies and gents. You're gonna need 'em.
In a shocking, disturbing, and precedent setting case, a total of 14 surface-dwelling (and sexually breeding) "cattle worms," referred to taxonomically as Thelazia gulosa, were found content to feed on tears rather than burrowing into the brain as feared by an Oregon woman, after she'd made contact with a face fly, the parasite's other host.
Initially suspecting a stray hair strand, she couldn't believe her eyes, however, as she was forced to stare in the mirror and peripherally inspect the left eyeball after days of lingering and severe irritation, discovering what appeared to be translucent fuzz wiggling around on her eyeball, proceeding to extract the fuzz with her bare hands and realizing it was a live worm fighting to stay alive...
CDC basically had to be called in, and like all important news stories of our time, it was first broken by the very fine people of Buzzfeed:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/cattle-worm-human-eye-thelazia-gulosa
Luckily for her, she started plucking them just in time, for had they been left to their own devices, the mild case of pink eye would've resulted in burrowing beneath the surface to scratch the cornea and effect blindness.
Further reporting:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/12/she-thought-the-weird-sensation-was-a-stray-eyelash-it-was-eye-worms/
http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/02/14_cattle_worms_found_oregon_w.html
In a shocking, disturbing, and precedent setting case, a total of 14 surface-dwelling (and sexually breeding) "cattle worms," referred to taxonomically as Thelazia gulosa, were found content to feed on tears rather than burrowing into the brain as feared by an Oregon woman, after she'd made contact with a face fly, the parasite's other host.
Initially suspecting a stray hair strand, she couldn't believe her eyes, however, as she was forced to stare in the mirror and peripherally inspect the left eyeball after days of lingering and severe irritation, discovering what appeared to be translucent fuzz wiggling around on her eyeball, proceeding to extract the fuzz with her bare hands and realizing it was a live worm fighting to stay alive...
CDC basically had to be called in, and like all important news stories of our time, it was first broken by the very fine people of Buzzfeed:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/cattle-worm-human-eye-thelazia-gulosa
Luckily for her, she started plucking them just in time, for had they been left to their own devices, the mild case of pink eye would've resulted in burrowing beneath the surface to scratch the cornea and effect blindness.
After two unsuccessful visits to clinics … Beckley flew home and visited specialists at the Oregon Science and Health University in Portland. The team extracted two worms and sent a preserved sample to the CDC. Over the next few weeks, each time she felt a twinge, Beckley would reach in and pull out another worm or two, to make a total of 14.
Further reporting:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/12/she-thought-the-weird-sensation-was-a-stray-eyelash-it-was-eye-worms/
http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/02/14_cattle_worms_found_oregon_w.html
By DY_nasty Go To Posti just want to thank you for not putting up a picture in the description.I honestly considered it but knew people don't want to throw up their food. I wouldn't have appreciated it if done to me.
She was also salmon fishing off the coast of Alaska as her occupation.
I mean... she's definitely more of a boss than I am.
I mean... she's definitely more of a boss than I am.
By Kabro Go To PostSo next time you feel like rubbing your eyes.How about no
Think of this thread