Maggots Eat Disabled Man to Death in Austria

A 61-year-old Austrian retiree who had been paralyzed due to a stroke for several years was recently eaten to death by maggots. The man passed away while being taken by an ambulance to a hospital in Vienna, and his back side was shown to have been partly eaten away.

According to a police spokesman, “The man had not wanted to be washed for a long time.” The factor, along with the discovered extremely bad state of hygiene found in the man’s home might have been cause for the occurrence of the maggot infestation on the man’s body.

The man was sleeping in the same bed as his partner until his death, and the couple had been together for about a decade or so. The policed questioned his 34-year-old partner about his condition and the situation.

The ambulance was called after the lady phoned in to say that the elderly man was having problems breathing. But the paramedics got themselves a shock by seeing the maggots that were eating away at the man’s body.

The woman has since then been arrested in order to question further into the case regarding the man’s death.