NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A 13-year-old Indian boy has begun
producing winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in
his body, a senior medical official says.
Doctor Chittaranjan Maity, Medical Education Director of West
Bengal state where the boy is from, said doctors found the beetles
while examining him for pain in the groin area.
"Doctors were really surprised to see the beetles," he told Reuters
on Monday. "There are eggs of the beetle in a fistula in his body
and he is getting medical treatment to try to kill the eggs," Maity
said.
The boy had been taken to hospital on Sunday after complaining of
pain while urinating.
The beetles - more than half a centimetre in length -- belong to
the Staphylinidae rove beetle family of insects. Most types are
predators but some feed on fungi, algae and decaying plant
matter.
An expert in urology, Doctor N. Subramanian, said that in theory it
was possible for insects to hatch in the body and come out in urine
but said he had not heard of such a case. "
