previously in rfc, smithfarms pure kona > wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:55:27 -0500, zxcvbob >
> wrote:
>
>>PENMART01 wrote:
>>> If you lick your envelopes ... You won't anymore!!! A woman
>>> was working in a post office in California. One day she licked the
>>> envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a sponge.
>>> That very day the lady cut her tongue on the envelope. A week
> later,
>>> she noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue. She went to the
>>> doctor, and they found nothing wrong. Her tongue was not sore or
>>> anything. A couple of days later, her tongue started to swell more,
>>> and it began to get really sore, so sore, that she could not eat.
>>>
>>> She went back to the hospital, and demanded something be done.
>>> The doctor took an x-ray of her tongue and noticed a lump. He
>>> prepared her for minor surgery. When the doctor cut her tongue
>>> open, a live cockroach crawled out!! There were roach eggs on the
>>> seal of the envelope. The egg was able to hatch inside of her
>>> tongue, because of her saliva. It was warm and moist...
>>
>>Impossible. Have you ever seen cockroach eggs? They are much larger
>>than you might expect.
>>
>>>
>>> This is a true story reported on CNN.
>>
>>Well, with a citation like that, I guess it *must* be true. (if you
>>believe this story, I've got a cookie recipe for sale...)
>>
>>Bob
>
> There was a rumor all my growing up life that if you cut yourself on
> coral, in the ocean, that coral would grow inside your skin, so we
> were always very careful to really rinse that coral cut. Well of
> course it was not true and was only made barely plausible to
> youngsters because coral cuts got very infected so the site would
> swell and fester. Coral is made up of many little tiny animals and
> they cause nasty infections.
>
> I doubt that anything, except for human cells, can grow in a human.
> aloha,
> skeptical Thunder


Maggots can. Well, I don't know if IN is the right word. They can grow on
and I suppose to some extent burrow under infected moist dying skin. I've
not seen it first hand on a human but I have seen them on a dog. Nasty.

-Claudia