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Botfly Removal From 5-Year-Old’s Eye
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:16 pm
Nature Sho is Scary!
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Warning: This is definitely another one of those “that which has been seen cannot be unseen” kind of articles. View with discretion.
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Dermatobia hominis is a species of botfly which parasitizes humans, with a range from Southern Mexico down about halfway through Chile and Argentina. The botflies use 40 different species of mosquitos and other insects as a vector to infect humans. The fly captures the vector, deposits the eggs onto it, and releases it. When the mosquito bites a human to feed, the eggs are dropped onto the skin. Body heat causes the eggs to hatch, and they quickly burrow under the skin through the bite hole provided by the vector.
Over the course of the next 8 weeks, the larvae develop. After they have grown large enough (about 18-24 mm) the larvae exit the skin and drop to the soil where they will pupate for about a week before starting over with the life cycle.
Botfly larvae can develop wherever the eggs wind up, which can sometimes have some pretty horrifying results. In rural Honduras, the Air Force Mobile Ophthalmic Surgical Team extracted a botfly from the eye of a five-year-old male patient. The little boy was put under anesthesia and the larva was extracted from his eyeball.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:17 pm to JOJO Hammer
looks like good fishing bait
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:18 pm to JOJO Hammer
How about a little heads up bro!
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:19 pm to JOJO Hammer
I wonder if they could repair the eye.
You see this a lot in dogs in poorer countries.
You see this a lot in dogs in poorer countries.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:19 pm to lsu480
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How about a little heads up bro!
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Botfly Removal From 5-Year-Old’s Eye
What did you expect?
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:20 pm to lsu480
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How about a little heads up bro!
he did in big bold letters
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:22 pm to oleyeller
[link=( https://youtu.be/GCh3JdMMwY0)]found this video on reddit the other week[/link]
This post was edited on 4/23/14 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:23 pm to JOJO Hammer
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What did you expect?
A link to a video or pics, not pics in the thread!
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:24 pm to JOJO Hammer
You have to imagine how exhilarating that felt after removal though, right?
I mean what an instantly sensational relief.
I mean what an instantly sensational relief.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:25 pm to Honkus
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found this video on reddit the other week
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:29 pm to Honkus
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found this video on reddit the other week
At first I was like
but then I couldn't stop watching just imagining the relief if the monkey were still alive.
This post was edited on 4/23/14 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 4/23/14 at 1:33 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Posted on 4/23/14 at 4:37 pm to Honkus
That was actually really interesting to watch. Terrifying to see so many that there are flies underneath other flies
Posted on 4/23/14 at 4:47 pm to forksup
i was cringing with every squeeze on those mango worms
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