Shocking: Maggots pop of woman's leg after a trip to south America.

A woman experienced her worst nightmare after a trip to the Amazon rainforest left her leg infected with parasitic larvae - one of which burst out like in the sci-fi blockbuster Alien.

She has since had two more larvae removed - alive and wriggling - by doctors at Longhua Hospital, affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The 28-year-old woman, identified only by her surname Gu, flew to South America at the end of March for a special backpacking trip with her close friends.

The natives of China’s eastern port city of Shanghai started in Brazil and then visited Bolivia as well as a number of other countries surrounding the Amazon.

She ignored the wounds and amazingly completed her trip, returning to China without further incident.

But it was while in Brazil that Gu said she was bitten by what was most likely a human botfly

The friends were sitting by a river in the rainforest when Gu said her right leg was bitten by a "peanut-sized insect".

She quickly swatted the bug away, but the fly left three "lumps" on her leg that itched for several hours.

She ignored the wounds and amazingly completed her trip, returning to China without further incident.

But at the beginning of April Gu was shocked to find that one of the lumps had split open and she began to experience intense itching.

She was then horrified when an insect burst out from under her skin, revealing itself to be a large fly larvae.

Gu’s family took her to Longhua Hospital where experts examined her leg and found that two more larvae were still buried in her limb and had yet to emerge.

They surgically removed them and have since pumped the tourist with antibiotics. She is now stable and recovering from her traumatic ordeal.
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