A worm-like parasite lived in a woman's eye for two years, and doctors believe it entered her body after she ate crocodile meat. The infected 28-year-old woman, from the town of Basankusu in the ...

For several months, British woman Shereen-Fay Griffin had been experiencing increasing itching and eye pain. Finally, at the hospital, specialists diagnosed the presence of a carnivorous parasite.

I was misdiagnosed with HSV1 in my eye but after five different ophthalmologists and 2 cornea specialists visits, I was diagnosed with a very rare parasite in my eye called acanthamoeba keratitis ...

known as Rose Bengal Photodynamic Antimicrobial Therapy (RB-PDAT), combines a bioactive synthetic small molecule known as Rose Bengal Sodium with a light-based medical device to help manage eye ...

Less than a fortnight later, she was told she would never see out of her left eye again. The midwife had contracted a parasite called Acanthamoeba keratitis - though it took doctors and ...