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Strangest Medical Cases of 2016

By Carl Anthony Teves | Update Date: Dec 29, 2016 08:39 PM EST

There so many strange medical cases happening everywhere which are the top strangest cases based on some research. There are known cases that are most likely searched by the netizen. 

One of them is ghost pepper leads to torn esophagus which happened in California after a 47-year-old man ate hamburger topped with a ghost pepper puree last September 2016. The man couldn't stop vomiting after eating the pepper that causes tore a hole in his esophagus.

Second is a multitude of moles. The moles were sprouted in 48-year-old woman's torso and extremities in just a few months. And unfortunately, doctors couldn't figure out the cause of this disease.

Third is the smartphone blindness. Most people like to bring their Smartphone into their bedroom but this can cause temporary blindness. This happened after a woman in the United Kingdom viewed their smartphone with just her one eye in several minutes while lying down in her bed at night according to the report that was published last June in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Some of them which are viewed and researched is 20-foot-tape-worm-find-a-home. According to the report published in January by the New England Journal of Medicine.  A 38-year old Chinese man's gut was being lived by a tapeworm for more than two years and causes no symptoms to him. This case was diagnosed by the experts with an infection, the tapeworm or parasite called teania saginata or also known as beef tapeworm and it has grown to a length of 20 feet.

Mostly common search is losing the sense of smelling after bitten the Snake. This case happened in Australia after a 30-year old man bitten by a mulga snake commonly known as the king brown snake or Pilbara cobra last February. According to the report published by the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, he was not given anti-venom by the doctors because they thought that the wound is not severe enough for a medicine. Several days he noticed that his sense of smell starting to vanish and within weeks, he totally lost his ability to smell completely. 

 

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