Feb. 12 (UPI) --Pediatricians in Los Angeles said they were treating an 11-year-old boy's skin abscess when they made an unusual discovery -- a live snail inside the wound. Dr. Albert Khait, an ...

An 11-year-old boy in Los Angeles discovered a snail had been living inside of his elbow for a whole week. According to a recent article published in the medical journal BMJ Case, the boy cut his ...

A checkered periwinkle marine snail, similar to these sitka periwinkles, was found growing inside an abscess on an 11-year-old Southern California boy’s arm. Emily Grason University of Washington When ...

Doctors removed a sea snail from a 11 year-old boy's skin. The incident happened a week after he fell and scraped his elbow in a tide pool at a California beach. The boy had injured his elbow while ...