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2006-08-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Hong Kong man found being eaten alive by maggots

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-15 05:29|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ewwwww.....

But, as I learned from CSI, they feast on the "rotting" flesh, so they aren't exactly eating the man alive.....

Ah, the power of the headline!

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-15 06:30|| 2006-08-15 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 During WWII it was not uncommon for doctors to put maggots on a wound and then cover with a cast. A few days later when the cast was removed all the dead flesh was gone. Maggots will not eat a person alive.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-08-15 08:34|| 2006-08-15 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Maggots eat the gangrene. Not the live flesh. The maggots probably saved his life.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-08-15 08:59|| 2006-08-15 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 There are all kinds of bugs out there, not all of them benign. From the article below, these parasites start with the rotting flesh but "quickly spread through the body." Hence they are not just feeding on the gangrenous tissue.

Posted by mom ">mom 2006-08-15 09:58|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-08-15 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with mom. Maggots is apparently used in this article simply to mean the grub phase of an unknown insect, not specifically fly larvae.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-15 10:07|| 2006-08-15 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 IIRC, there are various species of african flies' larvaes (maggot) which happilly eat a people from inside out, and I know of one horse-disease which consists of flies eggs hatching inside the horse's stomach, with subsequent maggots eating off the organ (this is not even fatal, only debilitating).
And we've all seen that picture serie of surgeons removing a live maggot from a patient's eye.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-15 11:31|| 2006-08-15 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Yikes!

A definite "eeewwwwww" moment.

I can't decide which is worse - this, or the woman we took to the hospital with a cockroach inside her ear canal. (As well as in her clothes and all over her house. Bleechh.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-15 12:24|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-08-15 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Wasn't this a scene in a Star trek Movie???

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-08-15 14:39|| 2006-08-15 14:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Barbara, you did sterilize the ambulance after, I hope.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-15 17:32|| 2006-08-15 17:32|| Front Page Top

#10 #9 TW - yep. AND never set our bags down inside the house [didn't need them - we were basically a taxi :-( ].

AND stamped our feet real hard as soon as we set foot outside the house (in case some had gotten on our shoes or pants).

We've been to calls in a lot of roachy places, but this one took the cake (or would have, if the roaches hadn't already carried it off).

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-15 18:42|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-08-15 18:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Barbara,

Barbra, as you well know Az has plenty of those Giant Brown Cockroaches LOL!

fyi: they like to hide under your bed during the day and then come out at night. They love to sneak up on you in the wee hours of the am...and when they are sure you are in deeeep sleep a half dozen or so will creep up on your face and then all drink from your MOUTH!

sweet dreams! >::

Posted by RD 2006-08-15 22:15|| 2006-08-15 22:15|| Front Page Top

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