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Spider nests in ear
12/01/2006 08:05 - (SA)
Stockholm - A spider that nested in the ear of a Swedish woman was discovered and removed alive after 27 days, Swedish tabloid Expressen reported on Wednesday.
The black spider, "the size of a thumbnail", crept into the woman's ear while she was sleeping and went undiscovered for almost a month, the paper said.
The woman, whose name was not disclosed, told the paper that she at first experienced "a slight loss of hearing" and assumed that she had a build-up of wax.
But when she heard "a scratching sound" in her ear she decided to go to the pharmacy to buy a cleanser to wash out her ear cavity.
When she did so, the spider was flushed out alive and crawled away.
The woman recalled having seen a spider on her bed in November, 27 days earlier.
- AFP
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South Africa
