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Four bees found inside woman’s eye

He’s eyesight, and the lives of the bees, were saved by the fact she had not rubbed her eyes.

Taipei: The doctors at Fooyin University Hospital in Taiwan have performed a rare feat when they extracted four sweat bees alive from a woman’s tear duct.

The Taiwanese woman named He, 29, went to the hospital this week complaining of a swollen eye. She and her doctor were horrified to discover four bees living under her eyelids, feasting on her tears.

The hospital’s head of ophthalmology Dr Hung Chi-ting said: “I saw something that looked like insect legs, so I pulled them out under a microscope slowly, and one at a time without damaging their bodies.”

–Agencies

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