Parasites Pour Out Of Long Island Woman’s Nose, Ears, & “Other Places” - With Video
They took her away in a HAZMAT suit. Don’t worry, though, I hear these mites are common…sort of.
LEVITTOWN, N.Y. (CBS) ― There was a warning issued Thursday to homeowners after a Long Island woman’s home was infested with “blood-sucking” parasites. It wasn’t bed bugs that caused the problem, but bird mites.
“I was hysterical crying last night,” said Crystal Shea, the daughter of the bird mite victim. “You know, I feel terrible for her. How do you watch your mom come out in a hazmat suit?”
The emotional daughter of the bird mite victim shared ominous looking photos of her mother being suited up in bio containment gear by emergency medical technicians responding to her S.O.S. from her Levittown home. They stripped her of her clothing, shoes, carted off her mattress, confiscated the wild bird nest from a bathroom vent and transported the patient to the quarantine unit at Nassau University Medical Center.
CBS 2 HD spoke by phone with patient Nina Bradica from her hospital bed in the isolation unit.
“My whole shower was covered with them,” said Bradica, 45. “I didn’t even know they were there at first, I was drying myself with my towel in the bathroom. That’s how they got on me.”
One of Bradica’s doctors told CBS 2 HD bird mites can be a very severe problem.
“They can be a nuisance and some people have been infected for years with these bird mites and have had difficulty eradicating them,” said Dr. Kenneth Steier.
Added Dr. Shadab Ahmed of Nassau Medical Center, “They can stick to the body. They are extremely tiny. I just sent three to be tested to the parasitology lab for identification.”
Doctors say there is absolutely no public health hazard. Mites can’t feed off human skin and will eventually drop off, but until then …
“They were biting her all night long,” Shea said. “They were coming out of her ears, her nose, some other places.”
Bradica tried to describe her discomfort.
“They do go inside you. They go in your nose. They go in your ears. They go in your mouth.”
The victim’s irate family is blaming her landlord, who drove off without commenting on why the home had not been fumigated.
Bradica told CBS 2 HD she is covered with welts and red bumps and wonders if her home will ever be livable again.
Bird mites usually infest bedrooms and bathrooms, but can quickly spread to the entire house.
(WCBS)
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10Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences:sad: in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
12″But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:07 pmEvery orifice?!
June 7th, 2008 at 4:21 pmLittle Fox
I thought the same exact thing when I read about bugs coming out of this woman’s snatch.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pmItching already…
June 7th, 2008 at 5:02 pmJune 7th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
ewwwwww
June 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pmJune 7th, 2008 at 10:13 pm