(Yahoo) – A parasitic worm typically found in cattle has been discovered in a woman’s eye in what scientists have warned may be an “emerging zoonotic disease” in the US. The 68-year-old woman is the second human to have become infected by the parasite.
She was jogging on a trail near the coast in California in March 2018 when she ran around a corner into a swarm of flies, according to a case report in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The report said she remembered, “swatting the flies from her face and spitting them out of her mouth”.
A month later, she experienced irritation in her right eye and when she flushed it out with tap water, she discovered a transparent roundworm around half an inch long, Live Science reported. Inspecting her eye more closely, she found and removed a second worm. The next day she visited an opthalmologist in Monterey, California, who removed a third parasite and sent it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for identification. READ MORE
