Take two maggots and call me in the morning. Diana Dupuy was an otherwise healthy woman who had bunion surgery. When her cast came off, she found that she had a wound that wasn’t healing very well.
A type of flesh-eating maggot is making a comeback — and it’s creeping toward the United States. The new world screwworm is a blowfly whose larvae burrow into animal wounds and gorge on living tissue.
The U.S. has blocked imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through southern border ports following the resurgence in Mexico of the New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly that infects animals and ...
A flesh-eating maggot that had been eradicated in the U.S. and parts of Central America is back and could potentially threaten Louisiana cattle, experts in the beef industry are warning. Due to the ...
A rare human case of a deadly parasite infestation has become the latest unsettling pathogen to make headlines in the United States. A New World Screwworm case was confirmed by the Centers for Disease ...
This piece is from How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi, a collection edited by Dr. Chris Balakrishnan and Matt Wasowski. Copyright (c) 2024 by the authors and ...
A rare human case of a deadly parasite infestation has become the latest unsettling pathogen to make headlines in the United States. A New World Screwworm case was confirmed by the Centers for Disease ...
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