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This is really nasty!
southendmd:
David, why did you start this? I'm gonna have nightmares, and I'm gonna have to call you in the middle of the night.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on May 07, 2007, 05:59:55 pm ---There are so many stories I heard about in entomology and invertebrate zoo class that will just chill you and make you grateful for hermetically sealed environments.
Dracunculus - Guinea worm: Can bore its way through skin. Up to three feet long. Works its way through the human body at 1/2 inch per day. This is very painful. Finally it sticks its head out of the skin. The Africans who have this parasite, then catch it and roll it around a stick or match. Every day, they wind a little more. Takes a month or so to get it out.
Google for 'guinea worm' for pics, if you dare.
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Funny you should mention that, Del. Once upon a time that wasn't limited to Africa. I remember reading an account in Benjamin Franklin's papers about removing one of those things from a woman in 18th-century Philadelphia.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 07, 2007, 06:03:26 pm ---Funny you should mention that, Del. Once upon a time that wasn't limited to Africa. I remember reading an account in Benjamin Franklin's papers about removing one of those things from a woman in 18th-century Philadelphia.
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Considering how its spread and the possible presence of African slaves/indentured servants in the area...who knows how it got there or how and where she picked it up?
injest:
my sister is a pediatric nurse; one little girl came in with an earache and they dug around in there and found a moth. It had crawled all the way up in there...
they flushed it out with a saline solution. It was still alive.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: injest on May 07, 2007, 07:57:58 pm ---my sister is a pediatric nurse; one little girl came in with an earache and they dug around in there and found a moth. It had crawled all the way up in there...
they flushed it out with a saline solution. It was still alive.
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God that is really awful!! I hate all the bugs flying around during the summer. I'm scared one of them will fly in my ear. A wasp flew in my sister's ear when she was 7 or 8 and it wouldn't come out. It continued to sting her until Dad pulled it out with a pair of tweezers.
AARRGGGHHH!!! :P
Eww! And it's almost summertime too.
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