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Title: Ants eat woman's eye out
Post by: shadowstar on November 18, 2005, 02:52:08 PM
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle....-INDIA-ANTS.xml (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2005-11-15T152623Z_01_FLE555575_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-ANTS.xml)

Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital
Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:26 AM ET

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it, officials said on Tuesday.

The patient recovering from a post-surgery infection shrieked for help as the ants attacked her on Sunday night, but nurses told her it was normal to feel pain from the infection.

On Monday, the patient's family saw a gaping hole with swarming ants in it when they lifted the bandage on her left eye.

Authorities of the Sambhunath Hospital in Kolkata said they were probing the incident.

"It's not uncommon for ants to attack diabetic patients. We have set up a committee to investigate the unfortunate incident," hospital superintendent A. Adhikary said.

Scampering rats and stray cats and dogs sharing bed space with patients are not uncommon sights at India's overcrowded state-run hospitals that are used by millions of poor and middle-class people.
Title: Ants eat woman's eye out
Post by: ctz on November 18, 2005, 03:30:50 PM
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It's not uncommon for ants to attack diabetic patients.


Ants have something against diabetics?
Title: Ants eat woman's eye out
Post by: shadowstar on November 18, 2005, 03:46:34 PM
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It's not uncommon for ants to attack diabetic patients.


Ants have something against diabetics?

Diabetics have (unusually?) high sugar levels in their body, and that carries a kind of "sweet odor" which attracts the ants, especially in their breath.

there's a very crude way of checking if you have diabetes (doesn't happy anymore), and that's peeing in a container and leaving it outside somewhere. if you discover ants near or on the container, then higher sugar levels are in your urine as well as in your blood, etc.
Title: Ants eat woman's eye out
Post by: StreakInTheSky on November 19, 2005, 04:56:36 AM
:shock:  :blackeye
Title: Ants eat woman's eye out
Post by: Hamasaki_Yoshizawa on November 19, 2005, 08:17:10 AM
It's hard being a diabetic in India then :( :P
Title: Ants eat woman's eye out
Post by: suki* on November 19, 2005, 08:31:17 AM
EEEEEEK~!!!!! >_<

Shouldn't they have at least checked when the poor woman was complaining of the pain?! >_< That's negligence!!! >_<
Title: Ants eat woman's eye out
Post by: daigong on November 29, 2005, 09:49:42 AM
OUCH! Never knew ants could be so lethal!