Loa loa – literally meaning "worm worm" – is an "eye worm" native to Central Africa and is normally transferred through the deer fly. It is a type of parasite and can produce inflammatory ...

Do you hate the feeling of getting an eyelash stuck in your eye? Well, there is something way worse that can get into your peepers. Meet Loa loa (literally meaning “worm worm” in Latin), also ...

Researchers at the LSTM's Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, and University of Buea, Cameroon have developed new models of the tropical eye worm, Loa loa for the development of new drugs against ...

It is the painting of a human eye, but it is an eye covered with long and undulating, an inch long worm. The worm, known as Loa loa is also called as an African eye worm.

Parasitic nematodes, also known as Loa loa worms or African eyeworms, are parasites spread primarily by the bites of flies. People often don't notice they're infected until they spot a worm ...

The cover of a medical journal published by the Centers for Disease Control features a haunting image of a human eye covered in parasitic worms. The artist who created the cover image did so after a ...

When the L. loa worm is found in the eye, it's referred to as an "eye worm." But the parasite can also get into other areas of the body and affect the subcutaneous tissue, or the area under the ...

The good news is that they can be cured with an anti-parasitic drug called ivermectin. The bad news is that a third kind of worm—a particularly disgusting kind called Loa loa, or African eye ...

A new mobile phone microscope -- combined with a specially developed app -- can quickly and effectively diagnose the parasitic Loa loa worm in patients' blood. Also known as the African eye worm ...

Loa loa is one of nine nematode worms that use humans as the definitive host. It is endemic in West Africa, where prevalence in some areas is as high as 50%. 1 Transmission occurs when an infected ...

For the previous 18 months, the Loa loa worm or Loaiasis (African eye worm) had been crawling underneath his skin causing itchy lesions in its wake, Dr. Shannon Moffett and Dr. Charlotte Page ...