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In March 1997, Brian Crenshaw, a chemical engineer from West London,
> returned to the UK after spending the previous six months overseeing work
> at
> a petrochemicals plant in Nigeria. During his first week back, his wife
> complained that he seemed to have difficulty listening properly. Brian
> suggested that his ears had not fully recovered from the air pressure
> changes experienced during his flight.
> Over the next two weeks, Brians condition worsened as he started to feel
> tickling sensations deep in his ears. Thinking the trouble was caused by
> loosened ear wax, he attempted to clean his ears with a ballpoint pen.
> When
> he pressed it into his right ear, he heard a cracking sound and saw the
> pen
> covered in a yellow goo.
> He went to his local GP claiming had punctured his ear drum. The GP
> reached
> into Brians right ear with a pair of tweezers and pulled out what appeared
> to be an insect antenna. During the examination Brian was horrified to
> learn
> that he had a total of 5 African cockroaches living in his head. Four
> cockroaches were alive and one cockroach was dead, presumably crushed by
> Brian s pen attack.
> An investigation revealed that when Brian was in Nigeria, a female African
> cockroach must have laid numerous eggs in the toiletries bag where he kept
> his cotton buds. When he was cleaning his ears, he was also transferring
> the
> cockroach eggs to his inner ear where they started to hatch.
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