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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 ...

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The outer layer of her eye began clouding over, and a specialist found parasites had burrowed into ... 5,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Brooklyn is now waiting for an expensive ...

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A woman has been left blind in her right eye after parasites burrowed into her cornea ... They are about 5,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Brooklyn is now waiting for an ...