from the keep-your-mandibles-off-my-eyeballs dept.
On Wednesday, doctors in France reported a rare case of tiny sheep bot fly larvae—aka maggots—infesting the outer surface of a man's eyeball.
The small, spiky larvae were seen slithering around the man's peeper, which explained the redness and itchiness he was experiencing. Doctors counted more than a dozen of the disturbing grub-like critters outside the eyeball and surrounding tissue. Doctors had no choice but to pluck the bloodsuckers out, one by one, using forceps. The doctors also prescribed topical antibiotic treatments in case they missed any bugs
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Regarding the case in France, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, the man was lucky. The infestation was only external ophthalmomyiasis, meaning the larvae didn't get inside his eyeball.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 10 2022, @04:42PM (8 children)
Seriously? This is the kind of "news" posted here now?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 10 2022, @04:57PM
It is all part of the game herr, sorry you're not in the know.
Cannperuse the urc logs at http://logs.sylnt.us [sylnt.us]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 10 2022, @05:25PM (5 children)
...and on arstechnica.. Although their taste for clickbait is well understood.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 10 2022, @07:47PM (4 children)
Back in the day when aristarchus used to submit, . . . well, things were different. Or at least they looked different.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 11 2022, @12:43AM (3 children)
the site was green?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 11 2022, @05:13AM (2 children)
Don't believe that aristarchus was ever on the Green Site. Maybe someone has retro-registered the username there now, since he is so popular here. But, no, I meant we had submissions on science, art, morality, philosophy, the deep and weighty issues of our time. Not eye-maggots and Trump MAGAots.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 11 2022, @03:05PM (1 child)
Great. You're using de-humanizing language for the people who disagree with you. Now you can proceed to shoving them into ovens.
Congratulations. You have become the fascism you have been warning everyone about.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2022, @07:43PM
C'mon, hemo! We punch these Nazis in the face first, to get their attention and give them a chance to reform. The "re-education and rectification camps" are really a last resort.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 11 2022, @12:45AM
France, sheep; can only mean one thing:
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Subsentient on Sunday April 10 2022, @08:53PM
I am Subsentient and I approve this message. [imgur.com] :^D
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 10 2022, @11:49PM
...treatments in case they missed any bugs" Wait what?
Just spread shit there then cause that will have the same effectiveness IF they missed any.
You have two choices with Bot fly.
Wait 2 weeks till egress.
Or surgical removal.
Any remaining will not be killed using antibiotics...cause they know they are not bacteria right?
But hey they are doctors, so they must know what they are doing?
I have to believe therefore this is an epic editor fail.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 11 2022, @12:06AM (1 child)
where oh where did he store those vr goggles?
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Monday April 11 2022, @01:57AM
In a sheep's pussy, obviously.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 11 2022, @12:09AM
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/worm-eats-mans-retina-terrible-parasites/story?id=11700175 [go.com]
Cause the article makes it sound like this is inside the eyeball.
And no bot fly can live there.
On the eyelid however, fair game.
(Score: 2) by MIRV888 on Monday April 11 2022, @02:29AM
Just sayin'.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 11 2022, @03:09PM (3 children)
The title was off-putting but I read the article anyway because of a tiny hope that somehow the maggots might have been beneficial. That is, during WWI, I think it was, they discovered that leaving maggots in wounds helped because the creatures ate necrotic tissue and left healthy tissue alone.
But, nope. This was just gross.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2022, @10:53AM (2 children)
Was this not using leaches?
To help with blood flow to the wounds while removing damaged tissues?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday April 12 2022, @01:33PM (1 child)
The word you were looking for was leeches as leaches is the act of leaching. Which is what leeches do.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2022, @07:35PM
No, Phoenix666 is right. Maggots, for removing dead flesh. Leeches remove blood, like the good old conservative practice of blood-letting. And, Phoenix is wrong. Medical use of maggots far pre-dates WWI. He is also wrong that there is any medical use for MAGAts, other than selling them horse de-wormer. Too bad that he will have to be sent to the sanitorium, due to his double Trump voting problem.