A young boy was rushed to hospital to have a 2.3-inch leech removed from his nose. The nine-year-old boy, whose name has not been revealed, complained of a constant feeling of itchiness inside his nose after visiting his family's home town in the countryside recently.
He was brought into Donghua Hospital in Dongguan, south-east China 's Guangdong province, by his father for a checkup. Video taken inside the consultation room shows Dr Li Wenbo, an ear, nose and throat specialist, trying to locate the leech using an endoscopy.
The camera equipped on the flexible tube reveals the wriggling parasite feasting on the boy's blood inside his nasal cavity.
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