2024-02-26 11:21:00
the essential Doctors had to intervene urgently to remove these larvae, some of which measured a centimeter long…
This nightmare is told in the American version of Huffpost. In Florida, a man went to the hospital in early February complaining of facial swelling that was causing him intense pain. The first symptoms dated from October. He now had difficulty breathing, due to the presence of 150 larvae in his nose.
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Dr. David Carlson, an on-call otolaryngologist at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, found that the parasites were feeding on the patient’s nasal and sinus cavities and threatening to bore through the base of his skull.
Questionable hygiene
Surgeons were unable to suck out the larvae because they were too large: some measured a centimeter long. So we had to remove them one by one.
We do not yet know to which insect family they belong, nor how they invaded the patient’s body. However, he indicated that his hygiene was poor and that he often handled dead fish. The man is gradually recovering from his operation.
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