No matter how many travel vaccinations we get before flying somewhere exotic, no one ever prepares you for flesh-eating bloody maggots. Rochelle Harris was returning to England from a holiday in Peru, just last year, when she felt excruciating headaches, pains in her face and scratching sounds in her head. Doctors thought it was a minor ear infection - until they saw a writhing mass of maggots deep inside her ear. Turns out, a New World Army Screw Worm Fly had laid eggs inside her head, and, horrifyingly, the further doctors delved into her ear, the more the larvae retreated into her head, chewing a 12mm hole into her ear canal.
