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  2. Myiasis - Wikipedia

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    Maggot therapy – also known as maggot debridement therapy (MDT), larval therapy, larva therapy, or larvae therapy – is the intentional introduction by a health care practitioner of live, disinfected green bottle fly maggots into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wounds of a human or other animal for the purpose of selectively cleaning ...

  3. Flystrike in sheep - Wikipedia

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    Flystrike in sheep is a myiasis condition in which domestic sheep are infected by one of several species of flies that are external parasites of sheep. Sheep are particularly susceptible to flystrike because their thick wool, if sufficiently contaminated with urine and faecal material, can provide effective breeding ground for maggots even in the relative absence of wounds.

  4. Maggot - Wikipedia

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    Maggots feeding on an opossum carrion Maggots on a porcupine carcass Maggots from a rabbit. Common wild pig (boar) corpse decomposition timelapse. Maggots are visible. A maggot is the larva of a fly (order Diptera); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachycera flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies, [1] rather than larvae of the Nematocera, such as mosquitoes and ...

  5. Cordylobia anthropophaga - Wikipedia

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    Cordylobia anthropophaga, the mango fly, tumbu fly, tumba fly, putzi fly, or skin maggot fly, is a species of blow-fly common in East and Central Africa. It is a parasite of large mammals (including humans) during its larval stage. [1] C. anthropophaga is found in the tropics of Africa and is a common cause of myiasis in humans in the region. [2]

  6. Cochliomyia hominivorax - Wikipedia

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    The maggots are capable of causing severe tissue damage or even death to the host. About three to seven days after hatching, the larvae fall to the ground to pupate . The pupae reach the adult stage about seven days later.

  7. Disturbing video shows hundreds of maggots removed from ... - AOL

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    By RYAN GORMAN Horrifying video has emerged of doctors pulling maggots out of a man's ear. The unidentified Indian man went to a doctor's office to complain about hearing a non-stop buzzing sound.

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