This is Science Friday. I'm Iroflato. A bit later in the hour, we'll be talking about a new kind of fake news, forged videos, and audio.

But first, for everyone who celebrated Valentine's Day this week, love may have been in the air.

But what happens when love is on your eyeball? One Oregon woman is in the news after finding yourself on the wrong side of a parasitic romance.

Here to tell us the story, plus more short subjects in scientists is my guest.

Nidhi Sabaraman, science writer for BuzzFeed News.

Welcome to Science Friday.

How are you? Very well. It's nice to be here.

Yeah, nice to have you. So what happened to this poor woman's eye? Right. This is a case that has

fascinated parasitologists, Ira. She became the first person known to be infected with

eyeworms that usually live on the eyeballs of cows.

Wait, wait a minute. So what are they doing on her eyeball? It was a complete accident how they

got there, but one day she felt a little prickling in her eye, you know, as if there was an eyelash stuck under there.

And when it didn't go away, she just reached in and kind of pulled.

And there was this long filamentous worm that sort of came out like a bit of thread.

And then she reached in again and she pulled.

And there were a couple more.

And between her and the doctors, they pulled out 14 worms.

Oh, I hate it when that happens.

Oh, well, she was okay?

Was she okay after they pulled those worms out?

Yes, fortunately, these parasites are harmless.

If they are caught quickly, which it was in this case, she had a mild case of pink eye, and otherwise was fine besides being startled.

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