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[Gross] Squirming Fly Larvae Pulled From Man's Head

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  1. RocketsPimp

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    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289733,00.html

    CARBONDALE, Colo. — Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas' head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving.

    A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas' head.

    "I'd put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head," Dallas told the (Glenwood Springs) Post Independent.

    "I could hear them. I actually thought I was going crazy."

    Dallas said he likely received the larval infestation while on a trip to Belize this summer. Bot fly infections are not uncommon in parts of Central and South America.

    Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, which are about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2- to 3- millimeters wide. They were removed Thursday.

    "It was weird and traumatic," said Dallas, of Carbondale. "I would get this pain that would drop me to my knees."

    After a specialist told him he might have shingles, Dallas tried different creams and salves. But the pain only got worse.

    "When I saw him again, it was pretty obvious something else was going on," said Dr. Kimball Spence, who could see the spots moving on Dallas' head. "There's an open pit. You see a little activity, not necessarily the larvae, but a fluctuation of the fluid in the pit."

    Dallas' wife, Midge Dallas, teased him about it.

    "I told him, 'I will love you through your maggots,'" she told the newspaper.

    But Dallas saw little to laugh about.

    "It's much funnier to everyone else," he said. "It makes my stomach turn over. It was cruel."
     
    #1 RocketsPimp, Jul 18, 2007
  2. hotballa

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    that pretty much tops anything I've posted in the last few months.
     
    #2 hotballa, Jul 18, 2007
  3. the futants

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    I had a bot fly larva growing in my lower back. I received the gift from a mosquito bite in Belize in 1994.
     
    #3 the futants, Jul 18, 2007
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    how painful is it?
     
    #4 pgabriel, Jul 18, 2007
  5. hotballa

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    maybe we should stop going to belize.
     
    #5 hotballa, Jul 18, 2007
  6. Lil Pun

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    They have plenty of videos on YouTube that show bot fly removal.
     
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  7. the futants

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    The area was pretty sore. I'm sure it would be excruciating on your head.
    I was working on an archaeological dig for the University of Texas. A girl on our team actually had one on the very top of her head (where her hair parted). During "extraction" she screamed pretty loudly -- it stirred the howler monkeys.
     
    #7 the futants, Jul 18, 2007
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    i got the willies now *scratching head and arms*
     
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  9. the futants

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    This sentence, from the wikipedia entry on "bot fly," is rather disturbing:

    "They do not kill the host animal, and thus are true parasites (though some species of rodent-infesting botflies do consume the host's testes)."
     
    #9 the futants, Jul 18, 2007
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    Wow that's disgusting. I just watched a video on youtube and WOW, that's nasty.
     
    #10 BmwM3, Jul 18, 2007
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    <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5muVjcQ6zHM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5muVjcQ6zHM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
     
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  12. A-Train

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    Wuss...just squish that thing while it's under your skin!
     
    #12 A-Train, Jul 18, 2007
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    Go to 2:02 on the click for the OH_MY-GOD part:

    <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zbZ1p3dflME"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zbZ1p3dflME" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
     
    #13 WildSweet&Cool, Jul 18, 2007
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    EDIT: click = clip
     
    #14 WildSweet&Cool, Jul 18, 2007
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