You’ll be sleeping with earmuffs on tonight after reading this cringe-inducing cautionary tale!
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A man has had a live gecko removed from his ear after turning up to the doctor complaining of a severe ear ache.
Upon examination, doctors discovered a living gecko had burrowed inside the man’s ear canal as he slept and had become stuck.
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Doctors at the hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, sedated the gecko and then used pliers to remove it from the man’s ear.
Shocked commentators made one worrying observation: where is the rest of the lizard’s tail?
This article first published on New Idea.
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