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Insect Injuries

Freema Agyeman narrates a series focusing on the most extraordinary and eye-watering cases to come through the doors of a British A&E department and remarkable tales of medical survival from across the UK.

Includes a woman wounded trying to kill a flea with a pair of pliers, a panto dame with an enormous elbow swelling, and a man whose leg burst open like a Christmas cracker after falling out of the loft trying to retrieve decorations.

Plus, how pioneering surgeons fitted an injured motorcyclist with a bionic bottom, and medical professionals confess the most bizarre and outrageous cases they've been confronted with in casualty.
This clip is a short animation about some injuries that have occured involving insects.

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2 minutes