British woman infested with flesh eating maggot after a visit to Ivory Coast.

Dailymail is reporting that a British woman who recently returned from the Ivory Coast has find flesh-eating maggots living - and wriggling - in her arm.

The 46-year-old, who is not named, returned to the UK and promptly visited his doctors who dismissed the sore as an infected insect bite and she was sent away with antibiotics.

However, when she returned to the hospital the next day in more pain, it became apparent it is not an ordinary skin infection.

Doctors spotted something 'wiggling' within the ulcer, according to The New England Journal of Medicine which has reported the case. They discovered several fly larvae had burrowed into her skin.

Squeezing the sore revealed the woman was infested with the larvae of the tumbu fly, a species found in the tropics of Africa, which gorge on human flesh.

The tumbu fly is found across the tropics and can cause significant pain and irritation when the larvae feed on a host

Initially, doctors tried to squeeze the flies from the woman's skin but the stubborn creatures refused to budge.

Dr John Park, who treated her, said the bugs had to be removed surgically. The woman was given a local anaesthetic during the procedure.

After treatment, the woman was given antibiotics and she has since fully recovered.