MOORHEAD — A Moorhead High School sophomore is dealing with a rare eye disease because a microscopic parasite infected him after a swim in an area lake. Getting back onto the ice and practicing with ...

A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection Kennedy News and Media Brooklyn McCasland was infected with a parasite in her ...

A mass that had been growing in a woman's eye for two years turned out to be a parasite that sometimes passes from reptiles to humans, doctors say. The doctors flagged contaminated crocodile meat as a ...

A trip to the beach has turned Brooklyn McCasland’s life upside down after she contracted a vision-threatening eye infection while swimming in her contact lenses. It happens when a parasite that can ...

A worm-like parasite lived in a woman's eye for two years, and doctors believe it entered her body after she ate crocodile meat. The infected 28-year-old woman, from the town of Basankusu in the ...

Teresa Sanchez was in Mexico for a medical procedure nearly four years ago when she kept feeling dry, poking sensations in her right eye. She chalked it up to a potential rip in her contact lens, the ...

When Vivian Nosovitsky, originally from Miami, Florida, moved to a small Mexican beach town called Sayulita, life seemed perfect. The 21-year-old lived just a stone's throw away from the beach and ...

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 when she ...

Doctors described a case of a rare infection called ocular pentastomiasis, which is caused by a parasite known to lay its eggs in snakes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...