In 2018, scientists reported that a species known as the cattle eye worm had infested the eyes of an Oregon woman—the first reported case ever documented in the U.S. A year later, they found another case involving a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska. While having eye worms is obviously no picnic and could theoretically lead to permanent damage, both victims recovered easily—once they removed the worms from their eyes, one by one. According to the second victim, the moment of discovery came when she saw looked in the mirror and saw “three little glittering, translucent things moving across my eye.”
