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| Doc pulls 13 cm live worm from man's eye in India |
| 2012-06-30 |
| According to my HP 48SX, handy-dandy engineering calculator, that's over 5 inches long! A doctor in India has pulled a live 13 centimetre-long worm from the eye of an elderly patient who was complaining of persistent pain in an operation reminiscent of a far-fetched alien movie plot. When Dr V. Seetharaman examined 75-year-old patient P.K. Krishnamurthy at Mumbai's Fortis Hospital this week, the eye expert was shocked by the highly unusual sight of the writhing parasite and had to operate speedily to remove it before serious damage was caused. "It was wriggling there under the conjunctiva," Seetharaman told AFP, referring to the thin membrane lining the eye. "It was the first time in my career of 30 years that I had seen such a case." I'ma wonderin' how come Mr. Krishnamurthy didn't *feel* the thing. The other side of my mind boggles at how it got in his eye... Krishnamurthy had been suffering for more than two weeks with redness and irritation before the doctor pin-pointed the threadlike creature under a microscope on Wednesday. |
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