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A Labrador woman is recovering indoors after being swarmed by hundreds of black flies, leaving her feet purple and oozing with blood and incapacitating her with fever and swelling for days.

‘‘I’m still in the house and I still have my feet elevated,” Elaine Chubbs of St. Lewis, Labrador, said Monday.

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“I’ve had to keep my feet packed in ice because they are swollen so much. They were literally purple.”

Chubbs said she didn’t feel a swarm of black flies bite her ankles when she was gardening on July 13. She only realized she was attacked when she came indoors and her husband noticed blood oozing from her feet.

“I was literally crawling with these black flies,” Chubbs said.

With symptoms including a fever and severe swelling around her feet, Chubbs sought medical attention from a local nurse practitioner.

Chubbs, who is retired, said she’s still on antibiotics, and wants to warn people that black flies can be quite dangerous.