Sat, 16 Jun 2012 | The Sun
Woman ‘pregnant’ with 12 baby squid
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A WOMAN became “pregnant” with 12 baby squid after eating calamari.
The shocked 63-year-old felt a sharp pain in her mouth as she bit into
a portion of whole cooked squid.
She immediately spat out the sea creature — along with its internal
organs — but could still feel “small, squirming organisms” in her mouth.
Doctors in South Korea examined the woman and found 12 squid
spermatophores attached to her tongue, cheek and gums.
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A “spermatophore” is a sac of semen that implants itself in the female
squid before a mechanism shoots out sperm and fertilises her eggs.
The case was revealed in a paper by the National Centre for
Biotechnology Information in Maryland, US.
The paper says: “Twelve small, white organisms stuck in the tongue,
cheek and gums were removed. The foreign bodies were identified as
squid spermatophores.”
A similar case was reported last year after a woman ate raw seafood
in Japan.
Woman ‘pregnant’ with 12 baby squid
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A WOMAN became “pregnant” with 12 baby squid after eating calamari.
The shocked 63-year-old felt a sharp pain in her mouth as she bit into
a portion of whole cooked squid.
She immediately spat out the sea creature — along with its internal
organs — but could still feel “small, squirming organisms” in her mouth.
Doctors in South Korea examined the woman and found 12 squid
spermatophores attached to her tongue, cheek and gums.
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A “spermatophore” is a sac of semen that implants itself in the female
squid before a mechanism shoots out sperm and fertilises her eggs.
The case was revealed in a paper by the National Centre for
Biotechnology Information in Maryland, US.
The paper says: “Twelve small, white organisms stuck in the tongue,
cheek and gums were removed. The foreign bodies were identified as
squid spermatophores.”
A similar case was reported last year after a woman ate raw seafood
in Japan.
I thought from her stomach
