Doctors Remove Wiggling, Five-Inch Parasitic Worm From Man’s Eye (Graphic Footage)
- Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:07pm by
Liz Klimas
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Warning: Graphic pictures below.
Don’t watch this video if you are eating dinner, lunch, a bedtime snack, or anything at all for that matter. What you’re about to see is a live, five-inch worm being removed from a patient’s eye.
V. Seetharaman, a doctor in Mumbai, India, said even with 30 years in the practice, he had not seen a case like this. AFP has more on the rare situation involving a currently unidentified parasitic worm:
Retired patient P.K. Krishnamurthy had been suffering for more than two weeks with redness and irritation before the doctor pin-pointed the threadlike creature under a microscope on Wednesday.
“He was also confused and very much disturbed,” said Seetharaman.
The specialist removed the 13-centimetre (five-inch) worm by making a small opening in the conjunctiva — a 15-minute operation that was observed by the patient’s horrified wife, Saraswati.
“It just kept moving and jumping; it was scary for a bit,” she told the Mumbai Mirror.
The patient was relieved of his symptoms while the worm, which was alive for another 30 minutes after surgery, was sent to the hospital’s microbiologists to be identified.
This man had an eye irritation that turned out to be a five-inch parasitic worm. (Image: AP video screenshot)
You can see the worm below the eye tissue here. (Image: AP video screenshot)
Here tweezers begin to remove the worm. (Image: AP video screenshot)
In the footage you can see the worm actively moving behind the whites of the eye and being removed during the procedure. Check it out for yourself (Warning: The footage is graphic):
It is unknown exactly how the parasitic worm made it into the man’s eye or what type of parasite it is. Here is a potential option though. The Loa loa filariasis worm is most common in African countries, but can be found in India as well. The worms are contracted at an immature stage from a certain species of fly. Female Loa loa filariasis worms even at their largest are around 77 mm (or about three inches) long. Still, Seetharaman notes that the worm he pulled out could very well be record-breaking. This worm migrates throughout the human host’s subcutaneous tissue and can be easily seen if it is in the eye.
Loa loa filariasis worm. (Photo via Wikimedia)
The patient won’t know officially the type of worm he was playing host to until lab results are returned. If the worm had not been removed in time, it could have left the patient blinded.
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Comments (48)
blv
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:48amUnder Obamacare the wiggly thing will be in the man’s eye for life!!! Welcome to your new life!
Report Post »ChildOfTheKing
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:48amSounds like an episode from FALLING SKIES, when Noah Wyle comes back from being taken to the aliens’ spaceship. They find this worm in his eye, a TRACKING DEVICE. Oooooo…….not good.
It is coming folks. The ability for the government to KNOW EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE, the ability for you to SWIPE YOUR HAND across the bar-code machine to pay your bills, to buy your food, to purchase anything, is already here. It just hasn’t been fully implemented yet, but it will be. With THEFT running rampant, stealing your identity, stealing your money, etc.., IT WILL BE INEVITABLE TO TRACK EVERYTHING, JUST TO MAKE PEOPLE SAFE, AFTERALL (smirk).
Thank God’s grace that I am one of HIS. I am ready to get out of here BEFORE it will be the law to have that tiny, tiny, device embedded into me. JESUS CHRIST is preparing to take only HIS OWN off this earth. When that happens, then you will see chaos and Satan (anti-christ) take FULL CONTROL of governments, businesses, and charities. THERE WILL BE NO WHERE TO HIDE.
IT IS ALMOST HERE. Better get your soul prepared now.
What is the old saying? BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY.
Get your life in order now, people. START WITH YOUR SOUL.
THINGS ARE HAPPENING TOO FAST TO DENY IT ANY LONGER.
Report Post »muddpuddle
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:43pmIm with Child of the King
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:21pmOHHH!!! I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Distugusting. And I was getting ready to bbq some terryaki skewers. Not now.. Disgusting.
Report Post »anomnomnommm
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:14pmYou’re first thought when seeing this is about Obamacare? Had enough KoolAid yet?
Report Post »Hanner
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:20amThat was cool!! I‘ve cut open abscesses on the head of bulls and thick mayo exploded out of them so this stuff doesn’t really bother me.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:18amI’m not impressed, I once saw a much larger worm burst out of a guys chest while he was eating dinner on a space ship.
Report Post »MizuNo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:26amNice. lol
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:42amthe worms crawl in the worms crawl out to go in your belly and out your mouth they eat your eyes the eat your nose they eat the jelly between your toes.
song i’d sing when i was knee high to a grasshopper.
Report Post »napoleon_solo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:13pmThe Hearse Song
Do you ever think as a hearse goes by,
that you may be the next to die?
They wrap you up in a big white sheet
From your head down to your feet.
They put you in a big black box,
And cover you up with dirt and rocks.
All goes well for about a week,
Then your coffin begins to leak.
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.
A big green worm with rolling eyes,
Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes.
Your stomach turns a slimy green,
And pus pours out like whipping cream.
You spread it on a slice of bread,
Report Post »And that’s what you eat when you are dead.
Meyvn
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:12amNasty. You are not supposed to let fly’s lay around on your person. Especially on your eyes.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:28amEwwwww……… Just…. ewww.
Marine 1, that was nasty!!
Has anyone seen this show on Discovery? My husband won’t watch it with me but our older kids find it to be morbidly fascinating.
http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/other/videos/monsters-inside-me-videos.htm
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:53amI can’t watch that show. It gives me nightmares. My husband watches it though. ;0P
Report Post »MRMANN
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:01amYeeeeooooooow!!!!!
Report Post »marys_image
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:49amI’ve read where 90% of the population contracts pin worms, and doesn’t know it? You must be very careful when travelling to other countries. Childhood parasites in the States, due to sanitation, minimizes occurrences such as these…. but good lord! It’s enough to make me rethink my alternatives….
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:15amA parasite CAN be removed from a host. We have to remove the progressive/communist parasites from the eye of America in November.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:36amNo not all parasites are removable.Lymphatic filarisis isn’t.It can be kept under control and stopped as a vector but not removed.Now lets hope bo doesn’t have that organisms genes[cross spliced in genetic engineering]otherwise we are in deep deep do do.
Report Post »Carrieann1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:23amMarine 1 — oh….you’re so right — that vid was absolutely stomach turning!!! How could a 3 year old have that many worms in them??? So sad…..I hope the DR got them all and that they found a way to stop them from growing again!! Poor little kid….. :-(
Report Post »Quack Addict
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:04amI’m sure the Indians will turn it into a god and worship it.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:02amEye, yi, yi yi…I think I’ll make some spa-ghet-ti…
Report Post »SerikFox
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:01amI hate worms. More than anything else – even more than girly men – I hate worms. Worm in eye = me never visiting that region of the world. I’ll take inhospitable wasteland over that any day if it means no ****** worms.
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:37pmBring back DDT !
Report Post »Marine 1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:03amIf you think that is bad try this on fro interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuU0uEY5ft0
Much of the problem with worms and other parasites in the human body has to do with
where people live, their personal hygiene, how clean the water is that people drink, how foods are cooked, what type of conditions people live in, and other variables.
There’s some nasty stuff out there.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:33am@Marine1
Report Post »If you were a marine then you know some of the truly nasty boys of the bug parasite world.Why play stupid on this board?They expect you to play dumb jarhead [your kids too].Many times it just easier than watching the shock on there faces when they discover how unjarhead like you really are.Hell then you would have to tell them that there really are parasites that aren’t curable only controllable.
Searchingforthelight
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:21pmYou left out the part where they lay eggs behind the eyes and no-one suspects problems until they hatch.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:55am…and then burrow into your brain.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:17pmGood thing he was not under Obamacare. The death panels would probably deem him too old for the cost and just sent him home with some pain pills.
Wake up, America!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:15amUnder CommieCare, after a perfunctory examination the health care provider would have prescribed eye drops. Once the man went blind, he would have had two options: a stick provided by TaxedCare or any other mobility aid out of his own pocket.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:47amActually under Obamacare the worm would be extracted and made to pay into the system.
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:53pmHoney! Where is my fishing pole?
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:36pmCool!
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:28pmGreat job, Doctor!
Report Post »AWAKENEDAWARE
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:23pmThis world is growing all kinds of cool new crap that can mess us up. Apparently skeeters in the Northeast are now spreading not only West Nile Virus, but ALSO LYME disease. Yippee.
Report Post »corbecket
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:49pmNothin’ much new here (there). Animal vectors of parasitic, and other diseases, just make things interesting for epidemiologists & parasitologists as their ranges ebb and flow about the globe. Most folks don’t die from them though.
There was a National Geographic photographer that contracted an eye parasite on assignment, though I can’t say that it was “Loa Loa”. While a rather harsh drug treatment seemed to knock the little worm down, the fellow said he thought it might just be sleeping instead. Folks pick up more parasitic infections than they realize in their lives, even here in the US. The successful parasites don’t kill you. They just coexist amicably with you. The nasty types are the ones that cause death, and logically they are the unsuccessful ones. If the host dies, so do they.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:45amHadn’t heard that skeeters are now carrying LYME.Thats a tick born disease along with several others including rocky nountain spotted fever.Btw RSF was discovered in the rocky mountain states[colorado I believe in one valley]yet it has the highest rates of infection in the midatlantic states.Skeeters can carry malaria[natural occuring] even in this country and in the midatlantic at least one or two people contract it almost every year.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:22pmA little eye-spaghetti, anyone? I understand it is an Indian delicacy! Eye sushi!
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:22pmguess i’d rather that instead of the flesh eating virus.
Report Post »Mother of JZS
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:16pmDagnabit, my sonny boy has an eye just like that. but he swears he needs a pet. whats a mother to do? keep your pet sonny.
Love,
Report Post »Your Mother
Dejavu
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:24pmMother, what if the pet keeps breeding? There won’t be much room left for JZS.
Report Post »Dejavu
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:16pmJust ate. Thanks, but no thanks.
Report Post »BubbaCoop
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:14pmPrometheus?
Report Post »OhSnappage
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:36pmThat was so nasty (barf).
Report Post »Shellback
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:23amFalling Skies
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