Enlarge / Doctors were able to extract the worm, a D. repens. (credit: Kartashev and Simon) A 32-year-old woman who visited a rural area outside of Moscow returned home with a surprising stowaway—in her face. And it was a restless one at that, according to a short report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). After her trip, she noticed an unusual lump on her cheek, below her left eye.