Doctors spent half an hour removing the leech which backpacker says was “as long as my forefinger and as fat as my thumb.”
A British backpacker troubled by weeks of nosebleeds found a three-inch long leech had been living up her nose for more than a month.
Daniela Liverani believed the persistent nosebleeds she suffered while travelling around south-east Asia were down to a burst blood vessel from a motorbike crash.
Days after returning to her Edinburgh home, however, she spotted an object in one nostril that she first dismissed as congealed blood.
The 24-year-old graduate was rushed to A&E at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary after realising she had an animal up her nose.
Miss Liverani, originally from Glasgow, told the Sunday Mail: “Two weeks before I came home from Asia, I started having nosebleeds but I’d fallen off a motorbike so thought I’d burst a blood vessel…………….
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