A New York woman, 53, was left blind in one eye after wearing contact lenses in the pool, leading to her contracting a ...
DOCTORS found parasites burrowed into a woman’s cornea after she made a common mistake while swimming in a pool. Maureen ...
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 ...
Maureen Cronin told other contact lens wearers to be careful about going into pools - or even using them in the rain - after ...
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 ...
Dr. Samendra Karkhur, the lead retina surgeon for this procedure, explained the complexity of the surgery, stating that removing a large, live parasite from the eye is extremely challenging.
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