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South Korean Man Has 11 Live Worms Removed From His Eyes, Some Pregnant

A 71-year-old crop farmer in South Korea had 11 live roundworms removed from his eyes after two months of discomfort, according to a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Many female worms were pregnant, and the man narrowly avoided having larvae released into his eyes.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-27 07:53

The man told doctors he felt as if something was stuck in both eyes, which were also red and blurry, for the previous two months. When ophthalmologists examined him, they observed multiple mobile, whitish roundworms. The blood vessels in his conjunctiva, the membrane covering the eye, were enlarged, giving his eyes a red appearance. The cells of his cornea—the transparent outer layer of the eye—had eroded, potentially as a result of the worms' activity.

Doctors applied a topical treatment to numb the eyes and then used fine forceps to extract the worms one by one. They collected 11 adult worms, which ranged in size from 11 to 22 mm. At the time of extraction, many of the female worms were pregnant. The man narrowly avoided having the worms release loads of live larvae directly into his eyes, according to the report.

The case was detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine, Ars Technica reported. No further information about the patient's outcome was provided in the source.