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Couple Gets Flesh-Eating Parasites on Vacation & the Details Are Horrifying
cafemom ^ | January 11, 2013 at 2:08 PM | Jacqueline Burt on

Posted on 02/07/2013 2:12:40 PM PST by BenLurkin

Of all the maladies I hope never to be afflicted with, and there are many of those, any sickness with the term "flesh-eating" in its name is way, way at the tippy-top of my list. The very thought makes my skin crawl. (Ha! No, really.) Gaaah! After last summer's streak of flesh-eating bacteria cases, I'd already pretty much resolved to never ever swim in a lake ever again. But after hearing about the flesh-eating parasites a young Australian couple recently became infected with on a "dream trip" to the Amazon, I'm pretty much resolved to -- well, I've never been to the Amazon, and I sure as hell ain't making any plans now.

Seriously, what happened to Ally Vagg and Bryan Williams is so incredibly horrifying, I really have to warn anyone without a supremely strong stomach to stop reading now. After the jump, things get ugly. Fast.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestir.cafemom.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crime
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1 posted on 02/07/2013 2:12:45 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

No photos?


2 posted on 02/07/2013 2:18:14 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Thankfully. Reminds me of the most horribly creature created. The Surinam Toad.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Surinam_toad_%28DFdB%29.jpg


3 posted on 02/07/2013 2:22:52 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: BenLurkin

That's an image of the adult Botfly.

I'm not going to post images of the larvae, because ...

Well ...

I'm just not.

Web-search ... you'll find 'em.

They're nasty.

4 posted on 02/07/2013 2:25:15 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: BenLurkin
Venice Carnival
5 posted on 02/07/2013 2:29:19 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (If you want to ring the bell - you got to swing the hammer hard!)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I’ve seen pictures similar to what this couple got, and they are horrifying to look at and recommend that nobody take a look, unless you want to be creeper out for days.


6 posted on 02/07/2013 2:33:19 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: BenLurkin
Just think with minor adaptations the Bot Fly and its larvae might just be able to survive in parts of the United States. That would certainly give an added dimension to the vacuous liberal wet dream: "Our Diversity is Our Strength!"
7 posted on 02/07/2013 2:34:09 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: demshateGod

bkmk


8 posted on 02/07/2013 2:36:21 PM PST by Raebie (WS)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Looks kind of cute, really.


9 posted on 02/07/2013 2:39:34 PM PST by MeganC (“Free Men Need Not Ask Permission!”)
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To: BenLurkin

Myself, I’d prefer “flesh-eating” to “hemorhagic”.


10 posted on 02/07/2013 2:40:57 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: BenLurkin

Moral of the story? Don’t take vacations in 3rd World cesspools.


11 posted on 02/07/2013 2:42:37 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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Doesn’t have to be 3rd world. We lost a cousin to this stuff. Took her hands and lower half of her legs before they stopped it, but ultimately took her life due to long term damage. And she never left the states. Think she picked it up in a hospital in the ER for a minor problem.


12 posted on 02/07/2013 2:45:10 PM PST by rstrahan
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To: Raebie

Don’t know what that means.


13 posted on 02/07/2013 2:50:43 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: ArrogantBustard
While I was doing some field work in Panama out in the rain forest, the local guys kept bugging me about not wearing a hat. Hate hats but am bald.

They showed me some scars they had, and explained this fly and it's nasty little habit. I started wearing a hat and constantly swiping my hands over my exposed arms and neck.....

14 posted on 02/07/2013 2:55:43 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: rstrahan

I think this is different than the flesh-eating bacteria we’ve heard about. The larvae will feed on one’s skin until it gets big enough to emerge, but I don’t think it kills people or causes amputation of limbs. It is very high on the grossness scale, though.


15 posted on 02/07/2013 2:55:43 PM PST by KevinB (A country that would elect Barack Obama president twice is no longer worth fighting for.)
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To: doorgunner69
Does DEET help with this critter?

How about DDT?

16 posted on 02/07/2013 2:59:46 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: BenLurkin

Botflies.

They are more commonly dealt with on animals. It may cause people to be grossed out but you do need a vet (or doctor) to get in there and remove them. Safest thing to do.


17 posted on 02/07/2013 3:03:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: rstrahan

Your cousin got flesh-eating bacteria? Here in the US? How terrible. A friend was a missionary in Truk; he said the tropics are very hard on the body.


18 posted on 02/07/2013 3:04:48 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: ArrogantBustard
I would guess DEET would keep the bugs off your skin.

The guys said the killed them by smearing Vaseline over the wound opening to cut off the oxygen and they grab the little bugger when he would poke his head up for a breath.

19 posted on 02/07/2013 3:07:29 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: BenLurkin

I believe that we will retire right here in New England. 3 feet of snow? That’s nothing!


20 posted on 02/07/2013 3:10:03 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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