In India, an unnamed 60-year-old man from Karnataka state came to the hospital and complained of pain and itching in one eye.
When the doctors began to examine his eye, they saw in shock in the corner of his eye a huge white wriggling worm.
The worm was so large that it could hardly fit in the space it occupied.
The surgeon managed to carefully remove the worm from the eye and when he measured it, the worm was 15 centimeters long. The most difficult thing for the surgeon was to pull the worm out so that it would not break.
According to doctors, this parasite is spread by mosquitoes and getting into the body of a person or animal causes the disease wuchereriosis, which is related to filariasis. At the same time, these worms rarely settle in the eyes, they are carried with the blood stream throughout the body and can settle in any organ.
The exact type of the discovered worm is called the Wuchereria bancrofti. The female in this species is much larger than the male and reaches a length of 10 cm. Thus, the worm extracted from the Indian turned out to be a real record holder of its kind.
These parasites are found in Asia, Central Africa, South and Central America. According to doctors, around 120 million people in the world are infected with Bancroft Thread.
When the doctors after the operation checked the man's blood, they found in it a lot of parasite larvae, which hatched from the eggs laid by the female. Now the patient has been given drugs against worms and is being treated.
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