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Stories of people becoming disabled litter the news every day, and to be honest, they're usually pretty grim affairs. So it made a change to read about a young Chinese woman who became partially deaf after a particularly .

We don't like getting medical here on Ouch, but it's perhaps worthwhile to note that this happened when the kiss "reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out and caused the breakdown of the ear".

With Christmas just around the corner, and people wielding mistletoe and puckering up all over the place, Ouch would advise its reader to proceed with caution. This has been a public service announcement.