The worms have previously been found in pets ... regular check-ups and keeping an eye open for any signs of disease around their eyes, like excessive wateriness. "The best thing to do is to ...

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

A woman in Beijing who presented to hospital with a foreign body sensation in her right eye was found to be suffering from a parasitic infection ...

“It was too much.” Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm, which can cause a range of uncomfortable ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink ... confirmed it had ended trachoma, a blinding eye infection. Haiti and the Dominican Republic ...

The late president’s longtime goal of eradicating Guinea worm disease is now closer to being realized than ever before, with only 14 human cases reported in 2024 juxtaposed to an estimated 3.5 ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.