Man's two year coughing fits caused by fragment of plastic fork

A man plagued with coughing fits for two years was found to have a 1in piece of plastic fork in his lung inhaled while sucking a soft drink.

Doctors at North Carolina’s Duke University Medical Centre said the fragment ingested in a burger restaurant caused the coughing, fatigue and pneumonia spells that John Manley suffered.

They removed it from the 50-year-old’s left lung during surgery.

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