INFELICITOUS INSERTIONS

Will they never learn?

EEL-IAN INVASION On 20 March a man arrived at the Hai Ha District Medical Centre in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, with extreme abdominal pain. X-rays and ultrasound scans showed that there was an unidentified foreign body in his abdominal cavity and that he was suffering from intestinal perforation. Given the pain the man was in, medics decided to operate immediately and on opening the patient up were startled to find that the foreign body was a 30cm (1ft) eel, and that it was still alive. They extracted the wriggling creature, then removed the damaged portion of his intestine, creating a stoma, and stabilised the patient, leaving him with only mild abdominal discomfort. The doctors believed that the eel had crawled up the patient’s intestine from his anus and had got…

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