November 22nd 2023.
Doctors were left baffled after making a confusing discovery during a 63-year-old man's routine colon cancer screening in Missouri, US. During the colonoscopy, they found a fly, fully intact and alive, inside the man's intestines.
The medical team, from the University of Missouri School of Medicine, were amazed to find the fly in the transverse colon, which is at the top of the large intestine. They documented their findings in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, expressing their "mystery" as to how the fly got there.
The patient reported having no symptoms and couldn't remember if the fly was in his food the night before his procedure. He had only eaten a meal of pizza and lettuce, and had strictly followed the instructions to consume only clear liquids the day before the colonoscopy, in order to empty the digestive tract.
It has been known for flies and their larvae to infest the human intestines in rare cases, usually when they eat eggs and larvae. This has been linked to rotten bananas, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that myiasis can cause abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea in some patients, while others may suffer no symptoms at all. The condition is thought to be more common during the warmer months of April to September, when there are more flies.
The University of Missouri School of Medicine declined to comment further, leaving the mystery of how the fly got into the man's intestines unsolved.
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