Farther away are the days when the most horrible thing you could get into your eyes was the eyelash or some dirt. Did you think that a whole worm could grow in it?

A 60-year-old man had severe pain and itching of the eye, from where he found that the cause was a 15 centimeter parasitic worm. Physicians at the health center in Kundapur, India, had to remove the worm as he was still alive, still moving.

"The challenge was to get the worm out of the wild, though we would have serious complications," he told the Daily Mail.

According to the World Health Organization, the Wuchereria bancrof specia can be "transmitted" through mosquito bites. The worm in question risks destroying the lymphatic system by causing a condition called lymphatic filariasis.

Infected mosquito draws parasitic larvae, which travel along the lymphatic system, where they develop and grow. Worms can continue to live within the human body for six to eight years producing millions of larvae.

If you want, you can see the surgical intervention here .