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  2. Maggot therapy - Wikipedia

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    Maggot therapy (also known as larval therapy) is a type of biotherapy involving the introduction of live, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into non-healing skin and soft-tissue wounds of a human or other animal for the purpose of cleaning out the necrotic (dead) tissue within a wound (debridement), and disinfection.

  3. Myiasis - Wikipedia

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    Maggot therapy was common in the United States during the 1930s. However, during the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of antibiotics, maggot therapy was used only as a last resort for very serious wounds. [3] Lately maggots have been making a comeback due to the increased resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. [42]

  4. Lucilia illustris - Wikipedia

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    Medicinal maggots have three actions: 1) they debride (clean) wounds by dissolving the dead (necrotic), infected tissue; 2) they disinfect the wound, by killing bacteria; and 3) they stimulate wound healing.” [11] According to the Federal Drug Administration, medicinal maggots are the first live organisms to be marketed in the United States. [11]

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

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    The nearly five-minute video consists entirely of close ups of the infestation and footage of the maggots being pulled from the ear. The video, posted earlier this year to YouTube, has more than ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly - AOL

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    Here are 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly. Number 10.A meteor. Humans have been lucky when it comes to avoiding sizeable meteors and mass die-offs. However, if one measuring 50 ...

  8. World's Grossest Foods: Flying Maggot Cheese, Anyone? - AOL

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    In some ports of call, locals like to spice up their dishes with maggots, insect eggs, blood. Marco di Pisa, flickr Usually, traveling comes with the added bonus of trying delicious new cuisines ...

  9. Insects in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Maggots secrete several chemicals that kill microbes, including allantoin, urea, phenylacetic acid, phenylacetaldehyde, calcium carbonate, proteolytic enzymes, and many others. [12] Maggots were used for wound healing by the Maya and by indigenous Australians.

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