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Man Who Was Being Eaten By Maggots Dies
WNBC Television ^ | 7/28/2005 | Puppage

Posted on 07/28/2005 5:13:09 AM PDT by Puppage

YONKERS, N.Y. -- A 63-year-old man died a day after emergency workers found him at his home in such squalid conditions that maggots were eating his flesh, a fire official said Wednesday.

Paramedics went to Michael Link's home Sunday night after his 66-year-old brother and roommate, Adam Link, said the victim was having trouble breathing, fire department surgeon Roger Chirurgi said.

Michael Link was lying in his own feces on a pile of debris and "had open wounds with maggots eating on the flesh," Chirurgi said. Link was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday, the surgeon said. His brother was undergoing psychiatric evaluation. The home, a large Victorian across from a school, was overgrown with trees, shrubs and weeds. Inside, paramedics found no electric power and papers and boxes everywhere, Chirurgi said.

Firefighters wore hazardous-materials suits to investigate the house after the brothers were taken out. Chirurgi said several veteran firefighters were sickened by the scene and stench.


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To: texianyankee

Yuck.. Couldn't the worms be removed?


41 posted on 07/28/2005 5:52:38 AM PDT by 1stFreedom (1)
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To: OXENinFLA
Not all that rare an occurrence. One was hauled in to Hopkins ER about 6 months ago same problem. Hadn't taken off his shoes in a year or more. When the shoes came off the feet came off with them. Both legs were non salvageable and they had to get urology involved because the maggots had eaten up into his abdomen and were starting on his bladder.

Now that is gross

42 posted on 07/28/2005 5:54:54 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: 1stFreedom

Yeah, we could dig them out - and we did as much as possible. However, we still had to apply some medicine, but occasionally the screw worms had done too much damage by the time the medicine was applied.

It was tough to try & hold down a young calf or a full grown sheep if we were trying to dig out the worms - but we did what we could & as best we could. This was back in the early 60's and we werent high tech - just a weekend ranching operation.


43 posted on 07/28/2005 5:58:44 AM PDT by texianyankee
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To: Jaysun
But if he had enough sense to get help when he couldn't breath well, what stopped him from getting help when he was laying in his own feces being eaten by maggots?

"Having trouble breathing" = had stopped breathing (apparently for quite some time)

44 posted on 07/28/2005 6:01:24 AM PDT by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: Puppage

I thought maggots only eat DEAD flesh. I thought( maybe incorrectly) that is why they are sometimes used in the treatment of burn victims.


45 posted on 07/28/2005 6:02:08 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Larry Lucido
The maggots probably kept him alive longer.

You are probably right. I believe maggots only eat necrotized flesh, which is why they are sometimes used to clean wounds. This guy probably had other problems that killed him, but they weren't sensational enough for the reporter.

46 posted on 07/28/2005 6:02:42 AM PDT by RogueIsland
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To: Puppage
His brother was undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

Then the LORD said to Adam, "Where is your brother Michael?"
"I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"

The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

~ Genesis 4:9~10


47 posted on 07/28/2005 6:04:36 AM PDT by Willie Green (Some people march to a different drummer - and some people polka)
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To: 1stFreedom; texianyankee
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/AA/aka1.html

In 1982 the last case of screwworms was reported in Texas.
48 posted on 07/28/2005 6:17:14 AM PDT by gopheraj
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To: gopheraj

I wouldnt doubt that the last case of screw worms in Texas was 1982. That sounds about right. I cant find any info on a woman in south Texas being infected - but I recall reading it in the newspaper some years back - maybe 20 or more years ago...i dunno for sure.

I just did some research & found out our troops better watch out for screw worms, too! Seems there is a variety of screw worm fly in and around Iraq & Iran....

Check the link below:

http://www.ams.ac.ir/AIM/0251/56-chrysomya.pdf


49 posted on 07/28/2005 6:32:00 AM PDT by texianyankee
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To: Jaysun

These men aren't old enough to have dementia. Maybe they were mentally ill, or druggies.>>>>>>>

Sixty six is about the same age as a man I know who has Alzheimer's, he has reached the point of hardly knowing his own name.


50 posted on 07/28/2005 6:39:24 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: texianyankee

Only reason I knew was what hubby told me. He was born and raised around Hye/Johnson City and his dad raised a poop load of sheep and angora goats. Most all of his income was from shearing his animals and shearing for a living. Way too hard work for anyone and he did it way into his 70s/early 80s. Had very smooth hands from the lanolin from the wool.


51 posted on 07/28/2005 6:51:17 AM PDT by gopheraj
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To: Plymouth Sentinel
This is surely the work of George Bush.

The government must compensate the family.

Give credit where it is due.

This is one of hitlery's constituents.

It's her fault.

52 posted on 07/28/2005 7:00:06 AM PDT by Freebird Forever (abolish islam)
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To: mware
Remind me not to visit Mexico.

Too late, Mexico is visiting us.

53 posted on 07/28/2005 7:02:59 AM PDT by madison10
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To: dhuffman@awod.com
Pointing out the hyperbole only - not diminishing the horror - maggots eat only necrotic flesh.

I read on another thread that there is one type of maggot (the screwfly IIRC) that eats living flesh as well.

54 posted on 07/28/2005 7:06:22 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Bob

Is a bot also a maggot? Why then are there two different words?


55 posted on 07/28/2005 7:26:54 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: OXENinFLA
>Eeewwwwwwww...

Giant mice on south Atlantic island 'eating seabird chicks alive'

56 posted on 07/28/2005 7:30:25 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: dhuffman@awod.com
Is a bot also a maggot? Why then are there two different words?

Sorry, I have no idea. I'm not even sure what a bot is. (I should have paid more attention in biology class.)

57 posted on 07/28/2005 7:34:07 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Puppage
Schadenfreude?

Perhaps. Or maybe he just doesn't walk by the couch very often.
58 posted on 07/28/2005 7:37:24 AM PDT by Jaysun (Democrats are motivated mainly and perhaps almost wholly by envy.)
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To: Alouette
"Having trouble breathing" = had stopped breathing (apparently for quite some time)

I see. A Democrat no doubt.
59 posted on 07/28/2005 7:38:21 AM PDT by Jaysun (Democrats are motivated mainly and perhaps almost wholly by envy.)
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To: gopheraj

"He was born and raised around Hye/Johnson City and his dad raised a poop load of sheep and angora goats. Most all of his income was from shearing his animals and shearing for a living. Way too hard work for anyone and he did it way into his 70s/early 80s."


Our ranch was close to Marble Falls & we'd take our wool and/or mohair to Johnson City to the warehouse. I loved the smell inside the warehouse.
Shearing sheep was indeed a very hard job. I forget now, but i seem to recall the price to shear sheep was less than a $1.00 a head - maybe a $1.00 for the buck sheep. But that was a high price to pay back then. This was in the early '70's - as we got out of raising sheep and goats by then. We didnt shear our sheep - just hired the shearers.


60 posted on 07/28/2005 7:41:12 AM PDT by texianyankee
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