During this period of deteriorating health, Taylor began work on an abstract painting that consisted of intricate, worm-like patterns inside a round circle. But at the time he painted it in 2014 ...

The worm was identified as Loa loa, a parasite transmitted by flies that breed in high-canopied rain forests of West and Central Africa. According to study authors, this is the first case of ...

This parasitic nematode worm lives in Central and West Africa, mainly around rainforests. Infection with Loa loa causes a disease called loiasis or Loa loa filariasis. An estimated 14.4 million ...

The doctor placed it in a container and Taylor watched it die. That year, 2015, Taylor was diagnosed with Loiasis, commonly known as African eye worm, a condition caused by the parasite Loa loa.

Slithering across an open eye are pale segments of a worm. Artist Ben Taylor was recreating his own medical condition — a parasitic worm called Loa loa, which he discovered crawling through his ...

The doctor placed it in a container and Taylor watched it die. That year, 2015, Taylor was diagnosed with Loiasis, commonly known as African eye worm, a condition caused by the parasite Loa loa.

Researchers at the LSTM's Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, and University of Buea, Cameroon have developed new models of the tropical eye worm, Loa loa for the development of new drugs against ...

Researchers at the LSTM's Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, and University of Buea, Cameroon have developed new models of the tropical eye worm, Loa loa, for the development of new drugs against ...

Efforts to eliminate river blindness, a debilitating disease affecting millions in Africa, will be hampered by another parasitic infection known as Loiasis, or 'African eye worm,' study published ...