A 35-year-old man in India had been experiencing blurry vision and a bloodshot eye for months. He finally went to an eye clinic where the doctors discovered that the problem wasn’t something that could be fixed with a corrective lens. It was a worm swimming in the back of his eyeball.

They don’t make drops for that.

In a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors detail the horrific case. The man’s left eye was inflamed, his pupil was blown wide open and unresponsive, and his vision was down to 20/80.

A quick peek inside revealed a wriggling parasite living in his vitreous humor, also known as the gel-like substance that fills the space between the lens and the retina.

Doctors quickly scheduled a pars plana vitrectomy, a procedure that’s not usually used to exterminate bugs

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