MOORHEAD — A Moorhead High School sophomore is dealing with a rare eye disease because a microscopic parasite infected him after a swim in an area lake. Getting back onto the ice and practicing with ...

A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection Kennedy News and Media Brooklyn McCasland was infected with a parasite in her ...

A mass that had been growing in a woman's eye for two years turned out to be a parasite that sometimes passes from reptiles to humans, doctors say. The doctors flagged contaminated crocodile meat as a ...

A trip to the beach has turned Brooklyn McCasland’s life upside down after she contracted a vision-threatening eye infection while swimming in her contact lenses. It happens when a parasite that can ...

Vivian Nosovitsky, 21, had finished another year of traveling abroad when she noticed pain in her eye ...

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 ...

Vivian felt like there were 'glass and knives' in her eye VIVIAN Nosovitsky lost vision in her right eye after it was “eaten away” by a parasite she caught “on the bus”. The 21-year-old woke up in the ...

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, visited Alabama with friends in August when she ...

Doctors described a case of a rare infection called ocular pentastomiasis, which is caused by a parasite known to lay its eggs in snakes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...