{"id":98211,"date":"2019-11-06T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-second-woman-has-gotten-parasitic-eye-worms-and-surely-were-all-next"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:03:55","slug":"a-second-woman-has-gotten-parasitic-eye-worms-and-surely-were-all-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-second-woman-has-gotten-parasitic-eye-worms-and-surely-were-all-next","title":{"rendered":"A Second Woman Has Gotten Parasitic Eye Worms, and Surely We\u2019re All Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-second-woman-has-gotten-parasitic-eye-worms-and-surely-were-all-next2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A species of worm that can infect human eyes has done it again, and this time it chose a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska. The woman is thought to be only the second human victim of these worms ever documented. But the incident signals they could become an emerging parasitic disease in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The disturbing details of the case were laid out <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d http:\/\/www.ajtmh.org\/content\/journals\/10.4269\/ajtmh.17-0870\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ajtmh.org\/content\/journals\/10.4269\/ajtmh.17-0870\">in a paper<\/a> published this October in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The woman\u2019s doctors, as well as researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contributed to the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A species of worm that can infect human eyes has done it again, and this time it chose a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska. The woman is thought to be only the second human victim of these worms ever documented. But the incident signals they could become an emerging parasitic disease in the U.S. The disturbing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}