Some parasites can affect the eyes. Without treatment, this can lead to vision loss. Learn more about the types of eye parasites, their symptoms, and treatment options.

They irritate the stomach lining and encourage mucosal shedding, and to the untrained eye, it looks like a parasite." Self-diagnosing parasites in your own stool can be tricky.

Parasites in the Indian River Lagoon. Researchers studied fish and crustaceans collected from six sites in the central and southern lagoon from October 2022 to October 2023, focusing on areas ...

Lack of parasites sign of danger for Indian River Lagoon Hatfield went to the lagoon on Friday and met Michael Colon from Port St Lucie. He calls the lagoon his happy place.

Parasites of Crustaceans and Fishes in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida: A Meta-Analysis Across Intertidal Systems and Taxa. Estuaries and Coasts , 2025; 48 (4) DOI: 10.1007/s12237-025-01531-2 ...

A New York woman, 53, was left blind in one eye after wearing contact lenses in the pool, leading to her contracting a parasite, acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), that causes damage to the cornea.

DOCTORS found parasites burrowed into a woman’s cornea after she made a common mistake while swimming in a pool. Maureen Cronin first thought she had an eyelash stuck in her eye, but the pain… ...

However, moxidectin does not kill the parasite. River blindness or onchocerciasis is an eye and skin disease transmitted by repeated bites of Simulium type infected blackflies (that are commonly ...

Brooklyn McCasland was infected with a parasite in her eye after she went swimming in contact lenses. ... Woman Given Dire Cancer Prognosis After Doctors Dismissed Her Stomach Symptoms as Heartburn.

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 ...

Armillifer grandis is a parasite known to infect humans in Africa. In a medical first, doctors discovered a rare parasite living in a woman's eye for two years, and the reason behind this extreme ...

The 28-year-old, from Basankusu in Congo, showed no symptoms other than the notable mass in the corner of her eye, her doctors reported. Upon examination, they found the mass could move and ...