Exotic trip turned into a nightmare disease

This pair of lovers dream about a trip to the Amazon, as the most beautiful journey of their lives. But in reality, they have contracted the disease so dangerous that because of it they were not even allowed home.

Australians Wagga Ellie and her boyfriend Brian Williams took a romantic trip to Bolivia to see the famous Amazon jungle to visit and enjoy the full-exotic. Now their lives are more than enough of the exotic, because they are victims of a rare parasite, feeding on human flesh.

Parasites were lovers in the body through mosquito bites. It all started with redness and itching. But then Ellie and Brian felt as if something was writhing under their skin, and sometimes looks outside through open wounds. In the hospital, doctors diagnosed an infection bott . According to experts, the mosquitoes bite lovers, transferred egg gadfly, which hit the bites before becoming larvae.

Today, young people are still living in a hotel and regularly visited a hospital in Bolivia, as the Australian government refused to accept their citizens back to their full treatment of parasites. Experts believe that one injury can be up to 50 eggs. Bott   They live under the skin and feed on human flesh. Over time, they gain strength and get out out to turn into a large insects, something resembling bumblebees.

So far, the Bolivian doctors have learned from wounds in the abdomen, back and legs, seven Australians wormlike larvae. Brian glues the tape wound on the advice of locals. Thus the larvae deprived of air and get out themselves out. Some parasites to be extracted surgically. (READ MORE)

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