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In 2019, a 9-year-old boy in Connecticut developed a buzzing in his ear after a tick became lodged in his ear drum, according to a case report published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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“The Q-Tip is still sticking in their ear, and then [something happens and] the Q-Tip goes through the ear drum. So then you have what’s called a conductive hearing loss because you punctured the ear ...