Monumental firsts are usually good things. The first dogs in space? Heck yeah. SpaceX’s first spy satellite mission? Maybe a dubious honor, but still a significant achievement. But how about the first ...

Doctors had to remove the worm while it was still alive, so it didn't cause further damage to the man's eye. This type of worm is typically transmitted through mosquito bites, but is uncommon outside ...

FLORIDA (KRON/CNN) – A Florida man is recovering from a surgery to remove a brain-eating parasitic worm that was living in his eye. Michael Poluska says he could see a little black dot moving left to ...

Imagine looking into your irritated eye for a pesky eyelash, only to pull out a translucent, wiggling worm nearly a half inch long. "I looked at it, and it was moving," recalled 28-year-old Abby ...

(CBS NEWS) -- Imagine going to the mirror and finding a small translucent worm crawling across the surface of your eye. The first of many. That's what happened to an avid 26-year-old outdoorswoman ...

Imagine going to the mirror and finding a small translucent worm crawling across the surface of your eye. The first of many. That's what happened to an avid 26-year-old outdoorswoman from Oregon, who ...

*Warning: This story contains material that some people may find disturbing due to the graphic nature. TAMPA (CBSMiami/CNN) - It's like something out of a science fiction movie - a brain-eating ...

Imagine looking into your irritated eye for a pesky eyelash, only to pull out a translucent, wiggling worm nearly a half inch long. "I looked at it, and it was moving," recalled 28-year-old Abby ...

A 60-year-old man in India had a 15-centimeter parasitic worm removed from his eye. Doctors had to remove the worm while it was still alive, so it didn't cause further damage to the man's eye. This ...