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10-15-2009, 10:48 AM
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 Lefty Poster Rank:85 Female Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 18,251 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 23 Post(s)
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Re: Pictures of People With Myiasis
Here's a truly DISGUSTING true personal account of the topic of Myiasis in an Emergency Veterinary setting: We all have probably heard the saying, that cats have 9 lives. The reason this saying came into use is because cats are SO incredibly tough. They can live through the most amazing injuries and illnesses, starvation, etc... and still survive, or hang on for protracted time frames compared to other living things. The following illustrates this toughness vividly: A barely alive maggot-ridden cat that had been hit by a car was picked up from the gutter by a good samaritan & brought into the hospital. Every one of us in the treatment area was retching. Of course, the cat was immediately euthanized, poor thing.... Apparently the cat had lain in the gutter for several days, alive. This poor cat was so "flyblown" that one eye was totally consumed, and the socket filled with a pulsing mass of maggots. The other eye was partially visible, but deflated, the surface rippling with the movements of the maggots beneath the tissue. The whole side of the cat had tiny white specks which were a newly hatched generation of maggots. The cat's hindquarters, especially around the anal area, were partially consumed--literally gone. You could see into the pelvis and out of the flank. The smell was more sickening than anything I'd ever encountered, and the sight of all the maggots squirming repulsed me beyond belief. But the worst part was not the piteous weak "meow" the cat made, but the sounds the feasting maggots made. You could seriously HEAR them munching!  |
