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

Getty Images For the first time in my life I am considering becoming a vegetarian. This is solely out of concern for my ...

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

NYANGAMBE, Zimbabwe — At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple ...

Renowned chocolate brand Lindt faces public scrutiny following an unsettling discovery by a customer — maggots found within their chocolate products. Mellissa Ngcobo from Durban said she ...

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Inspectors found a dead bird with wriggling maggots on a grill on a major cruise ship, while other areas were infested with insects, it has been revealed. A reports from the Centers for Disease ...

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 ...

The answer is, perhaps surprisingly, maggots. Dr Erica McAlister, an entomologist and Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum in the UK, explores how having maggots munching away at the ...