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STOCKHOLM, Jan 11, 2006 (AFP) - A spider that nested in the ear
of a Swedish woman was discovered and removed alive after 27 days,
Swedish tabloid Expressen reported on Wednesday.
The black spider, "the size of a thumbnail", crept into the
woman's ear while she was sleeping and went undiscovered for almost
a month, the paper said.
The woman, whose name was not disclosed, told the paper that she
at first experienced "a slight loss of hearing" and assumed that she
had a build-up of wax.
But when she heard "a scratching sound" in her ear she decided
to go to the pharmacy to buy a cleanser to wash out her ear cavity.
When she did so, the spider was flushed out alive and crawled
away.
The woman recalled having seen a spider on her bed in November,
27 days earlier.
STOCKHOLM, Jan 11, 2006 (AFP) - A spider that nested in the ear
of a Swedish woman was discovered and removed alive after 27 days,
Swedish tabloid Expressen reported on Wednesday.
The black spider, "the size of a thumbnail", crept into the
woman's ear while she was sleeping and went undiscovered for almost
a month, the paper said.
The woman, whose name was not disclosed, told the paper that she
at first experienced "a slight loss of hearing" and assumed that she
had a build-up of wax.
But when she heard "a scratching sound" in her ear she decided
to go to the pharmacy to buy a cleanser to wash out her ear cavity.
When she did so, the spider was flushed out alive and crawled
away.
The woman recalled having seen a spider on her bed in November,
27 days earlier.
