[Jacob-list] Nose Bots in Humans?

[BIDEWEE at aol.com]

Okay here's a weird one...

I just got a call from a woman in Hawaii (Molokai - sp?) whose son was 
helping on a Christmas tree lot and had a tree fall and hit him.  One of the 
branches pierced his eye and he ended up getting sheep nasal bot flies in his eye.  
Apparently had to fly to another Island to have them removed.  Sounds like it 
was a pretty disgusting and unpleasant process :-(  but they finally got them 
all.

Anyway, no one on the Islands had ever heard of humans getting bot flies so 
she went on the Internet to see if she could find any sheep farmers who had 
ever experienced a similar problem.  The trees were apparently shipped in from 
Oregon so she started with Oregon sheep farmers.  

We don't have a lot of problems with nose bots in our area so I don't have 
any first hand experience with them.  I checked in my Veterinary Parasitology 
Reference Manual and it doesn't mention them as something humans need to watch 
out for.  Have any of you ever heard of humans getting nose bots before?

I told her I'd let her know if I could find out anything more.
Thanks,
Karen
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