A woman from America had recently visited the Amazon forest and was later diagnosed with a rare kind of myiasis, a kind of tissue infection in her eye. She underwent a surgery and three live human botflies almost 2 cm in size were removed from her eye.
The woman visited a hospital in Delhi with complaints of swelling, redness and tenderness in her right upper eyelid. She revealed that she could feel something moving inside her eyelids.
She had earlier consulted doctors in the US but she was discharged after giving medications for relief. She later came to India and consulted doctors in a Delhi hospital who successfully completed the surgery in just about 10-15 minutes and removed the three live human botflies with aseptic precautions without any anaesthesia.
Similar cases have been reported in rural areas in India especially in children where the botflies have entered either through naal opening or musculoskeletal skin lesions.
