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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/02/81262d3ce6d08b5a4c135331f687b71d.jpg?quality=7526591495A man’s suspected case of painful eczema on his left wrist turned out to be something much more unusual. Doctors in China discovered that their patient actually had caterpillar hairs lodged in his arm, likely caught while climbing an apple tree months earlier. Following a steroid injection, the man’s lesions cleared up.