Doctors remove 11cm worm from woman's eye

The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | Feb 16, 2006

[Serb5150]

Doctors at a clinic in Kragujevac, central Serbia, have removed an 11 centimetre-long intestinal worm from a woman's eye socket.

According to preliminary results, the worm taken from the 37-year-old patient's eye belongs to the Ascaris family, a common intestinal parasite in pigs that is also found in humans.

No similar case has ever been recorded in Serbia and probably in Europe, Radomir Stojicevic, a doctor at the Kragujevac clinic, told the Tanjug news agency.

The parasite had probably travelled through the patient's blood from the digestive tract into the eye socket, doctors at the clinic believe.

[Serb5150]

Sorry everyone, no pictures...

[Lunatic Fringe]

Gross.

[krb]

Oh man, she must have felt horrible, and I bet she's feeling a lot better now!

[starbase]

I assume she lost the eye? Article doesn't say.

[krb]

I guess some people will protest the doctor's failing to respect the rights of the worm.

[Physicist]

They call me Doctor Worm,
Good morning, how are you?
I'm Doctor Worm.

[DainBramage]

There's a joke in here somewhere...but I know it would be cornea.

[Mr. Brightside]

[Serb5150]

I'm not sure, but I'm kinda glad they didn't go into a whole lot of detail.

[Serb5150]

PING

[ansel12]

A boy, a rat, a dog

[bikepacker67]

Here's some pics from a different eye-eating worm

[null and void]

I don't recall the joke either, but I'll keep an eye out for it...

[King of Florida]

The parasite had probably travelled through the patient's blood from the digestive tract into the eye socket

I hate when that happens.

[Physicist]

She put the "lid" in "annelid".

[bikepacker67]

LOL

[starbase]

I don't recall the joke either, but I'll keep an eye out for it...

I think telling jokes about this would be really short sighted.

[Bushbacker1]

These are pics that went around the internet. Could it be this bad?

[Physicist]

The parasite had probably travelled through the patient's blood from the digestive tract into the eye socket, doctors at the clinic believe.

Or maybe she was just doing a little eyes fishing.

[null and void]

Good one.

[null and void]

*groan

[null and void]

That reminds me of the kid born without eyelids. The plastic surgeon fashioned new ones from his foreskin.

He's OK, now.

A little cockeyed, but OK...

[Physicist]

You know how she was diagnosed? By her dilated pupas.

[MikefromOhio]

[Serb5150]

LOL!

[GSlob]

"I don't recall the joke either, but I'll keep an eye out for it..."
Well, the joke is a low-hanging fruit, and centers on people having intestines [and, occasionally, intestinal worms] in somewhat unexpected parts of their anatomy...

[null and void]

Stop that! Yer gonna hurt yerself!

[null and void]

Hurt him? It rectum...

[RightWingAtheist]

*Groan!*

[DainBramage]

I bet the Worm went for the apple of her eye

[manwiththehands]

11 centimeters? Did we read that correctly? That's 4.3 inches.

(erp!)

[proud_yank]

I guess some people will protest the doctor's failing to respect the rights of the worm.

I'm surprised PeTA and other AR wacko's haven't burnt anything down over this. This is an outrage!!

[steveyp]

Uhh... I could have lived the better part of my life without ever seeing those pictures. Then again...

...what did I expect to see?

[RS]

It's mezcal that has the worm in the bottle -



http://www.oaxacainfo.com/oaxaca/mezcal.htm

[glorgau]

Pardon me, but is that a pupa in your pupil?

[SteveMcKing]

I had the opportunity to take parasitology once. I'm glad I declined.

Besides all the grossness, the lab portion had a requirement of stool-sample from every student.

I s--- you not.

[SengirV]

That one is at least a year old. This appears to be a new case.

[metmom]

I believe it. I took a General Zoology course many years ago taught by a parasitologist and we spent the last week of the course on vertebrates. One guess what we spent the other 14 weeks of the course covering in excrutiatingly boring detail. That's when I decided to switch majors.

[Reaganesque]

The intestinal worm commented: "I knew I should have turned left at the lungs!"

[Verginius Rufus]

They don't tell us the patient's name, but they tell us that the worm belongs to the Ascaris family. Must be some Greeks living there in Serbia, or maybe Serbs whose ancestors came from Greece. I assume they gave the worm back to its owners.

It's always a helpful sign in formerly Communist countries when they begin to respect property rights.

[RichInOC]

...eep!...

[CheneyChick]

OMG - I should have known better than to click on this thread.... Now I'm gonna have nightmares.

[KoRn]

Thanks for sharing that with us..................


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