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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Lee Bullen & Charlie Duffield

Horrifying moment doctors find maggots in patient's ear after he complained of earache

A man found out to his surprise that flesh-eating maggots were living in his ear canal after he began experiencing earache.

The 64-year-old went to the doctors complaining of itching, bleeding and pain in one of his ear canals, and ended up being hospitalised.

He let doctors physically examine him, and they discovered his ear canal was being obstructed by "numerous motile larvae".

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