Woman sneezes 3-centimeter worms: how did she contract the infection that doctors described as biologically impossible?

Por Maried Díaz
19 May, 2026

A 58-year-old woman in Greece swore that her discomfort was due to an allergy, but she never imagined that one day she would end up sneezing live worms nearly 3 centimeters long.

Ilias P. Kioulos, Emmanouil Kokkas, and Evangelia-Theophano Piperaki

The woman, who after working near sheep spent weeks with a cough and unbearable pain in her sinuses, ended up with an invasion of cattle fly larvae. When examining her, doctors surgically removed 10 larvae and a chrysalis that were happily growing inside her head.

Ilias P. Kioulos, Emmanouil Kokkas, and Evangelia-Theophano Piperaki

This was supposed to be biologically impossible in humans, but the woman had a deviated septum and created the perfect nest for them.

Ilias P. Kioulos, Emmanouil Kokkas, and Evangelia-Theophano Piperaki

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