'Yikes, I'm a Host': What It's Like to Have Parasitic Eye Worms
'Yikes, I'm a Host': What It's Like to Have Parasitic Eye Worms
It’s not every day that you turn into a medical curiosity. But that’s exactly what happened to Dianne Travers-Gustafson, a retired medical anthropologist and public health researcher from Nebraska. In February 2018, her eyes had the misfortune of becoming infected by a particular kind of parasitic roundworm spread by face flies. She likely fell victim to the parasite while trail running along California’s Carmel Valley.
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