- Doctor had to remove wriggling white maggots individually with tweezers
- Fly laid eggs in the man’s ear as he slept; they then hatched into maggots
- Hundreds of maggots lived in his ear canal, feeding off his flesh
- If left untreated they could have burrowed into his brain and killed him
- Condition, called aural myasis, is common in the tropics and subtropics
- Treatment involves suffocating maggots using drugs and manual removal
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A young man suffering from a maggot infestation in his ear had to have hundreds of the creatures painstakingly removed with tweezers.
The maggots, visible as a wriggling white mass deep in his ear, were feeding off his flesh.
If left untreated, they could have burrowed into his brain and killed him.
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A doctor painstakingly removes maggots wriggling inside a man’s ear canal, which were feeding off his flesh
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