The wound on the anterior of the right leg of an accident victim is deep and gaping, full of yellow, smelly stuff. Usually there are three methods to clean it but at the Orthopaedic Unit of the ...

I cleaned the wound with spirit ... The Standard Explainer desk decided to check the claim that maggots can live in a human who is alive. We spoke to Dr Syama Sinuff, a Consultant Paediatrician ...

disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into a non-healing skin and soft tissue wound(s) of a human being or animal to clean out the dead tissue. Mukiria was speaking during the Kenya Science Journalist ...

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

Why should I be concerned that screwworm has been detected in Mexico? Screwworm has expanded uncontrollably in the last ...

Screwworm larvae are flesh-eating maggots typically found ... prefer to nest on the periphery of fresh wounds in warm-blooded animals — as well as humans — depositing hundreds of eggs that ...