US health officials are urging cattle producers to be on high alert after a parasitic screwworm was found in Mexico, the ...

In the later situation carefully controlled myiasis can even be of benefit to the host in 'maggot therapy' (Sherman et al., 2000). Bloodsucking larvae of the African species Auchmeromyia senegalensis ...

Screwworm flies prefer to nest on the periphery of fresh wounds in warm-blooded animals — as well as humans — depositing ...

You probably don't need to worry about maggots making a home in your vagina, but this very rare condition, known as myiasis of the vagina, does affect a handful of people. Fly larvae cause this ...

She had no idea it was being caused by the maggots that had settled there. Doctors at the hospital explained that the condition is called oral myiasis, a very serious health issue caused by the ...

The whitish fat short worms coming from your baby’s skin are called maggots and your baby is suffering from a disease called myiasis. Myiasis is the parasitic infestation of the body of a live ...

You may also be invited to register with LUCID for news of updates, but this is not essential. The term myiasis was first proposed by Hope (1840) to refer to diseases of humans originating ...

The ear canal was then cleaned under general anesthesia. Seven living fly maggots were removed. The ear canal was found to be hemorrhagic and macerated; the eardrum was intact with inflammatory ...

Dr. Ronald Sherman started studying myiasis and maggot therapy during medical school and published his first paper on the topic in 1983. He started the first prospective studies of maggot therapy ...