A WORM that nested in a US man’s eye has been killed with two laser blasts.
John Matthews noticed two spots obscuring the vision in his left eye in December. After doctors made the gruesome discovery, he was rushed to a Chicago hospital.
“I could see it from behind, moving, trying to dodge the laser,” Mr Matthews told the Dubuque, Iowa Telegraph Herald newspaper.
The worm was killed by the second laser blast but doctors could not remove it from his eye. Mr Matthews’s body is absorbing the worm’s remains
Doctors said he had suffered permanent retina damage. “It could have been hookworm I might have picked up when we were in Mexico,” he said.
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