A woman pulled 14 worms from her eye after being infected with a rare parasite.

Woman pulls 14 worms from eye

Woman pulls 14 worms from eye

Abby Beckley, 28, was working on an Alaskan fishing boat when she discovered the horrifying worms feasting on her eyeballs.

After seeing a specialist, they confirmed she had contracted Thelazia, a parasite typically found on cows, after a fly landed on her eyes when she was travelling through cattle fields in Oregon.

She told BuzzFeed: ''I put my fingers in there in kind of a picking motion and I looked at my finger and it was moving and I was shocked.''

The individual worms pulled from Beckley's eye were less than half-an-inch long and all 14 were removed over a 20-day period - but luckily didn't cause any permanent damage.