New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- In a rare and alarming medical case from rural India, a 35-year-old man visited an ophthalmologist due to blurry vision, only to discover a live parasitic worm moving inside his eye.

The unusual case, recently reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved Gnathostoma spinigerum, a parasitic roundworm typically found in cats and dogs. This nematode is known to cause severe eye issues, including vision loss.

Doctors suspect the worm entered the man's body through the consumption of raw or undercooked meat and eventually made its way to the eye, where it was detected and treated. Experts noted that the physical examination of the man's eye showed evidence of conjunctival injection, a sign of inflammation. ...