Rarely, sheep bot fly larvae can enter the eye sockets of humans—as was the case with the 53-year old Frenchman—most likely in areas where people live in close proximity to livestock.

The organisms were identified as sheep bot flies, or Oestrus ovis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A man's itchy eye was ...

Bot flies lays 30 eggs in woman's eye. A PARASITIC fly that incubates its eggs by shooting them into the eyes of deer is infecting people. By. Mirror.co.uk. 00:00, 6 May 2011; ...

Look in the mirror. Look closer. Is that pinkeye, or is something writhing around in there? Parasites have inspired some of the scariest cinematic monsters for a reason. There is tremendous shock ...

Fly larvae in a human eye. They were removed from the eye of the 10-year-old patient in Turkey, and he was given antibiotics and discharged. Courtesy of tatvandh.saglik.gov.tr/ ...

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