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  2. Family live with sewage spills and maggots in 'horrific ... - AOL

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    There are maggots in the kitchen, and mould and damp throughout the house, including the children's bedrooms. The windows are stuffed with bin bags as they do not close properly.

  3. Psychodidae - Wikipedia

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    Psychodidae, also called drain flies, sink flies, filter flies, [2] sewer flies, or sewer gnats, is a family of true flies. Some genera have short, hairy bodies and wings, giving them a "furry" moth-like appearance, hence one of their common names, moth flies . [ 2 ]

  4. 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 ...

  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. Cochliomyia hominivorax - Wikipedia

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    Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or simply screwworm or screw-worm, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue of warm-blooded animals. It is present in the New World tropics.

  7. Maggots from rotten fish in overhead bin fall on passenger ...

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    Maggots — the larvae of flies — were found falling from a bag carrying an apparently rotten fish on Delta Flight 133 on Tuesday, a passenger said. Maggots, which are small and wormlike, are ...

  8. Sewer gas - Wikipedia

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    The result is the most common means of sewer gas entering buildings and can be solved easily by using the fixtures regularly or adding water to their drains. One of the most common traps to dry out are floor drains such as those typically placed near home furnaces, water heaters and rooms with underfloor heating. Infrequently used utility sinks ...

  9. Calliphoridae - Wikipedia

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    Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is the medical use of selected, laboratory-raised fly larvae for cleaning nonhealing wounds. Medicinal maggots perform debridement by selectively eating only dead tissue. Lucilia sericata (Phaenicia sericata), or the common green bottlefly, is the preferred species used in maggot therapy. [58]