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Christmas eye cases on the rise and it's caused by a tiny bug you won't see coming

An increasing number of people have been diagnosed with a debilitating condition known as Christmas Eye this summer.

It's a condition caused by an orthoperus beetle, which measures only half a millimetre in size, that is found predominantly in parts of eastern Australia. 

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