{"id":752,"date":"2006-02-18T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2006-02-18T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T04:59:00","slug":"worms-eye-view-har-har","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/worms-eye-view-har-har\/","title":{"rendered":"Worm&#8217;s eye view &#8230; har har"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s installment of Irrational Fears Proven Not So Irrational Thanks to a Story Linked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fark<\/a> comes to us from Serbia, which is only mildly comforting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Doctors at a clinic in Kragujevac, central Serbia, have removed an 11 centimetre-long intestinal worm from a woman&#8217;s eye socket.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary results, the worm taken from the 37-year-old patient&#8217;s eye belongs to the Ascaris family, a common intestinal parasite in pigs that is also found in humans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The parasite had probably travelled through the patient&#8217;s blood from the digestive tract into the eye socket, doctors at the clinic believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A worm that can travel from your gut, through your blood, to your eye? That&#8217;s fucking science fiction, my friends. <\/p>\n<p>The story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/world\/doctors-remove-11cm-worm-from-womans-eye\/2006\/02\/16\/1140037812462.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, if you&#8217;ve got the strength of stomach to ponder it further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s installment of Irrational Fears Proven Not So Irrational Thanks to a Story Linked on Fark comes to us from Serbia, which is only mildly comforting. Doctors at a clinic in Kragujevac, central Serbia, have removed an 11 centimetre-long intestinal worm from a woman&#8217;s eye socket. According to preliminary results, the worm taken from the 37-year-old patient&#8217;s eye belongs to the Ascaris family, a common intestinal parasite in pigs that is also found in humans.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-c8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}