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My earache was actually a potentially fatal, revolting infestation | New York Post
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0:48Now PlayingA Portuguese man was shocked and revulsed after discovering that his innocuous-seeming “earache” was caused by a family of maggots that had colonized his hearing canal. A case study detailing the puke-inducing infestation was published late last month in the New England Journal Of Medicine.
According to the paper, the 64-year-old patient had reported to the Hospital Pedro Hispano in Matosinhos after experiencing “pain, itching, and bleeding in the left ear” for five days.
A subsequent examination revealed that the man’s auditory passage was infested with “numerous mobile larvae” — which had even perforated part of his eardrum, Jam Press reported. The accompanying footage shows a swarm of the interloping disco rice wriggling about in the poor soul’s ear like a scene out of the Animal Planet docuseries “Monsters Inside Me.”
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