From Nightmare Flight to Bed Bugs Fight Fire. Department here are 13 Terrifying Bug Infestations. Gross! No thank you!\r
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7. Nightmare Flight\r
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Georgian-British musician Katie Melua had been experiencing strange, rustling sounds in her ear for a week before finally going to a doctor. Physicians pulled a small jumping spider out of Meluas ear. The artist had used in ear monitors to block out the sound on a flight and believed that the spider crawled inside of her ear through the device. The ear specialist who operated on the singer explained that it was the first living bug he had ever pulled out of a patients ear canal. The nature loving Katie decided to keep the arachnid in a test tube and release it in her garden after the terrifying event. \r
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6. Memory Loss\r
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A fifty-year-old Chinese man was experiencing headaches along with seizures, memory loss and an altered sense of smell. He went to doctors in the UK, who were puzzled by his string of maladies, so they performed a litany of tests that allowed them to rule out syphilis, HIV or Lyme disease. When they examined MRI scans of the mans brain, they found a cluster of lesions that they thought could be a tumor. No cancerous tissues were detected, and for the next four years, doctors kept an eye on the area. Finally, after they saw that the region had made its way across his brain at least five centimeters, they fully realized what the mystery lesion was. A rare ribbon-shaped tapeworm had somehow ended up in the mans brain. The rare species of tapeworm doesnt usually infect people, and only around three hundred human infections have been documented in the world.\r
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5. Now the Cockroach\r
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Most of us spend our lives systematically avoiding cockroaches, just look at how gross and creepy they are. Australian Hendrik Helmer failed spectacularly in this pursuit. For days the man had been experiencing excruciating pain in his ear. Fearing that a spider had made its way into his ear canal, Helmer did what most panicked people would do in this situation. He tried removing the invader by sticking a vacuum cleaner over his ear. After this inevitably didnt work he sought professional help. Doctors removed the bug with forceps, which turned out to be a cockroach that was a full inch long. Terrifying as this story is it begs the question; would you rather have a cockroach or a spider stuck in your ear?\r
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4. Hearing Lost\r
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A 48-year-old Taiwanese woman visited an emergency room in new after suffering from severe pain in her ear for over a day. After physicians had removed her hearing aid, they discovered the unlikely source of her pain. They found a living fruit-fly larva below her hearing aid along with bloody fluid that had accumulated in the ear. Skin in part of her ear canal had eroded. The womans ear had become less sensitive from wearing the hearing aid and the warmer environment it created in her ear became a perfect climate for fly larvae. Doctors gave the woman topical antibiotics and after two weeks of treatments, her ear fully recovered. The memory of fly larvae living inside her ear is a memory that, unfortunately, will last the woman a lifetime. \r
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3. The Beatles\r
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Canine owners were put on notice last year when this terrifying picture of the inside of a dogs mouth covered in Asian lady beetles went viral. The Hoisington Veterinary Hospital in Kansas posted the photo of the dog, who had just been treated with a warning to people to regularly check their pets mouths for the invasive bugs, especially if they start drooling and foaming at the mouth. The beetles cause ulcers and have a bite thats very painful for the dog. \r
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2. Bed Bugs Fight Fire. Department\r
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An infestation of bed bugs forced a firefighter from Fire Station 2 in Florence Alabama to receive medical treatment, forcing the temporary closure of the fire department. The bedding in the station was destroyed, and an exterminator began treating the fire house. The nine firefighters and their trucks and equipment were debugged and temporarily moved to nearby locations. Bed bugs have become more prominent in developed countries in the last two decades thanks to the bugs evolved ways of resisting insecticides. \r
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1. Cricket Itch\r
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An unidentified man from India went to doctors with an itchy ear. Shocked examiners discovered a three-inch Indian house cricket burying its way into his inner ear canal as the cause of the itch. Uncomfortable video footage was recorded of the disgusting procedure. Indian house crickets hide during the day, and its probable that this one went into the mans ear for shelter while he was asleep. Apparently, its very likely that the insect would have crawled out on its own.
