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We know that bees love flowers but did you know that they actually like our tears too? Or at least, this lady’s tears.
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An unusual case buzzed up in Taiwan when doctors discovered four live bees in a lady’s eye infection!
The infection of course was caused by the bees who were living and feeding inside her eye. The lady, known only as He, had checked into the Fooying University Hospital in southern Taiwan when the shocking discovery was made.
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He was complaining about a pain in her eye, and upon inspective with a microscope, the doctors found four tiny bees wriggling around under her swollen eyelid. The doctors managed to remove all the bees alive!
One of the doctors, Dr Hung Chi-thing called this unusual case a “world’s first.”
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He recalled that shad was visiting a relative’s grave and pulling out weeds when the insects flew into her eye.
Speaking to reporters, she explained, “We were visiting and tidying a relative’s grave, and I was squatted down pulling out weeds. I felt win blowing into my face, then I felt something in my eye which I though was sand or dirt. I cleaned my eye using water but it started hurting a lot at night, a sharp pain, and I was tearing up.”
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And it was those tears that help the bees to survive in He’s eye. They reported fed on her tear ducts for four hours!
Because the bees were surviving in her eye, He developed a case of cellulitis and keratitis – a bacterial skin infection and inflammation of the cornea.
Thankfully, besides causing a nasty infection, the bees were relatively harmless. They were identified as sweat bees – known to be attracted to human perspiration; from the halictidae family. These types of bees are relatively non-aggressive and possess weak stings.
According to Dr. Hung, these bees “nest near graves and in fallen trees, so it’s easy to come across them while hiking in mountains.
Well, the bees are out of He’s eye and she’s expected to make a full recovery!
Do you feel the buzz down your spine as much as we do?
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