BANGKOK: Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch yesterday.
The Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.
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