A
backpacker found a 3in (7.5cm) leech that had been living up her nose for a
month after a trip to South East Asia.
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First listen to the story to see how much you can
understand. You can find the audio
recording at
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29601086
2.
Afterwards read the whole story to see how much you
understood.
3.
Then discuss these questions:
a,
Sum up the story with your own words
b, Practise present perfect:
Have you ever had anything similar or strange happen to you?
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Tell your story.
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What should you do to prevent such things to happen to you?
What precautions should you take?
Woman finds three-inch leech in nose after South East
Asia trip
Daniela Liverani,
24, from Edinburgh, had been having nosebleeds for weeks but put them down to a
burst blood vessel from a motorbike crash.
Ms Liverani was
having a shower last Thursday when she was realised the dark shape wriggling in
her nose was actually an animal.
Hospital staff used
forceps and tweezers to remove the parasite.
Ms Liverani believes
she picked up the leech in Vietnam or Cambodia, but even when she felt it
moving up and down her nostril, she thought it was a blood clot.
She told BBC Radio Scotland:
"Your initial reaction isn't to start thinking, oh God, there's obviously
a leech in my face."
It was when Ms
Liverani was in the shower that the leech's presence was most noticeable.
She said:
"Obviously my nasal passages would open up because of the steam and the
heat and the water, and it would come out quite far, about as far as my lip.
"So I could
kind of see it out of the corner of my eye but still didn't think it was a worm
because it just looked like a blood clot.
"On Thursday I
jumped out the shower and I unsteamed the mirror and I had a proper good look,
and I could see little ridges on him."
That was the moment
when Ms Liverani realised she was housing a parasite.
She went to accident
and emergency where doctors removed "Mr Curly" - as Ms Liverani
nicknamed the leech - with forceps and tweezers.
"The doctors
did a great job, hats off to them, because obviously they don't see something
like that every day", she added.
"They did what
they could in a strange situation while trying to keep their cool."
Ms Liverani then
took the leech home for the night, at the doctors' suggestion. However, Mr
Curly did not live to see another day.
"He's in an
Edinburgh City Council bin," said Ms Liverani. "He's probably long
gone by now. I boiled him first."
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Shorter
version of the story:
Glasgow woman:
Leech used my nose 'as a nest'
A Glasgow woman was
horrified to discover that her persistent nosebleeds had been caused by a leech
living in her nostril.
Daniela Liverani started
having nosebleeds after a backpacking trip around South-East Asia, and believed
it was a "congealed blood clot".
She sought medical
assistance when she noticed the nosebleed "had ridges" and had
started "poking out" of her nose.
Ms Liverani told BBC
Radio 5 live's Breakfast that when NHS staff pulled the leech out
with nose forceps, they were "equally horrified and intrigued".
The leech, nicknamed
"Mr Curly" by Ms Liverani, has since been destroyed.
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