Doctor in India pulls out 15cm-long worm from patient's eye

Look away if you're squeamish. 

In a stomach-churning video footage which has gone viral this week, a doctor in India is shown performing the unfathomable - pulling a 15cm-long worm from a patient's eye.

The doctor, identified as Dr Srikanth Shetty, says that the 60-year-old man from Karnataka state in Southwest India had come to him complaining of pain and itchiness in his eyes. 

And the cause is believed to be a parasitic roundworm known as Wuchereria Bancrofti, nestled comfortably in the sclera (white part of the eye).



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