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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: RipSawyer
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.

I'll be damned. They're making some decent headway in study of Alzheimer's, made a profound discovery just recently. I give as much as I can to the cause. My Grandmother had it and I think it's as tragic a condition as exist.
61 posted on 07/28/2005 7:41:51 AM PDT by Jaysun (Democrats are motivated mainly and perhaps almost wholly by envy.)
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To: Puppage

That home's going to be a great "moving up" opportunity for the right buyer...and brush clearers...and cleaning crew...and painters.


62 posted on 07/28/2005 7:44:01 AM PDT by MHT
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To: Puppage
"had open wounds with maggots eating on the flesh"

I never knew Pelosi, Durbin and Clinton were cannibals.

Since when?

63 posted on 07/28/2005 7:47:47 AM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: 1stFreedom
screwworms? Those things thrive on live flesh.

No! Screwworm maggots only eat dead flesh. It only looks as if they are eating live flesh, because they have cleaned away every bit of dead flesh. They prevent a scab from forming, and thereby negating the healing process. More flesh dies. then they eat.

Rock <--- Still in South Texas.

64 posted on 07/28/2005 7:49:27 AM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!)
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To: rock58seg

I think you're confusing maggots which feast upon dead flesh and the larvae from the screw worm fly which feasts upon live flesh.

Check the link below:

http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/flies/screwworm/index.shtml


65 posted on 07/28/2005 7:58:02 AM PDT by texianyankee
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To: Puppage

I completely and totally misread the title to this article. I'll leave the details up to y'all. Whew. Had me worried.


66 posted on 07/28/2005 8:01:18 AM PDT by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: Jonx6

Just damn...


67 posted on 07/28/2005 8:08:58 AM PDT by TXFireman
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To: texianyankee
Never found them anywhere but in a wound. Of course I may be wrong. They always seemed to follow the path of dieing flesh. Nose, eyes and naval.

Now that you made me thnk of it, (the naval was an obvious point of attack) the nose and eyes were simply moist, which was all that was required for the eggs to hatch. I had always assumed there was some kind of wound, which they attacked.

68 posted on 07/28/2005 8:15:42 AM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!)
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To: texianyankee
Here's how to deal with maggots.

"I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir!" Do you maggots understand that?"

69 posted on 07/28/2005 8:17:22 AM PDT by azhenfud (This tagline is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by.)
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To: azhenfud

SIR, YES SIR!


70 posted on 07/28/2005 8:19:37 AM PDT by texianyankee
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To: BlueNgold

LMAO!


71 posted on 07/28/2005 8:20:44 AM PDT by texianyankee
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To: from occupied ga
Was the guy who lost his feet a diabetic?

Otherwise, I would think the pain would have driven him to seek help a whole lot sooner . . .

72 posted on 07/28/2005 8:41:38 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother

No just a drunk and a druggie far as I know. And he didn't seek help - I think someone else found him and called it in - not sure about that part though.


73 posted on 07/28/2005 8:44:28 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: dhuffman@awod.com

Not quite so..

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/nov98/910901019.Me.r.html


74 posted on 07/28/2005 12:57:52 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: MD_Willington_1976

I'll see your 'madsci.org' and raise you a
http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/com/pathology/sherman/home_pg.htm

"Medicinal maggots have three actions: 1) they debride (clean) wounds by dissolving the dead (necrotic), infected tissue; 2) they disinfect the wound, by killing bacteria; and 3) they stimulate wound healing."

So the "MD" isn't medical doctor?


75 posted on 07/28/2005 1:18:25 PM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: Puppage

Sounds like Herod the Great.


76 posted on 07/28/2005 1:21:42 PM PDT by Busywhiskers ("...moral principle, the sine qua non of an orderly society." --Judge Edith H. Jones)
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To: dhuffman@awod.com

never said it was..I was actually joking with the link, I watched a neat show on maggot therapy, that showed all 3 steps of the process...I kind of didn't make that clear in the post, sorry..


77 posted on 07/28/2005 1:23:05 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Grannyx4

There are certain kinds of maggots that will not eat healthy tissue. There are other species however (either screwfly or blowfly) where the larvae eat healthy tissue as well. Usually cattle have a big problem with these.


78 posted on 07/28/2005 1:23:35 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: MD_Willington_1976

So the "not quite so." refers to ????


79 posted on 07/28/2005 1:25:11 PM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: Puppage

Unnngh!!


80 posted on 07/28/2005 1:26:39 PM PDT by Doomonyou (I don't think so, Scooter...)
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