They were known as Dazzlers when they became infected enough to show. When the larvae crawled up behind the eye and began filled them with a hefty dose of their saliva-based dissolving agent. They'd leave the outermost layer gelatinous and thin enough for them to peer through. Unfortunately this meant you'd be able to see them just as well and nobody wants to suddenly come face-to-face with those bulbous clusters of eyeballs and mandibles.
It's worse when it's someone you know. One minute their voice is cracking and giving way and the next they're trying to scream through the pain while becoming more and more dazzling by the second. You know, they're only called Dazzlers because the larvae change colours in such rapid and neon pulses that it tends to trigger muscle spasms and freeze you in place. All the easier for them to infect.
We don't yet know how to stop them other than burning the infected on sight but until they hit the eyes they're pretty much impossible to spot among the rest of us. Everyone's armed with a some kind of flamethrower and we travel in groups of five but not even that is enough to protect us.
All it takes is one missed moment and then a week later you're all dead and dazzling.
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