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2. 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]

3. 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 ...

4. 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. There is evidence that ...

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. 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 ...

7. Lespesia archippivora - Wikipedia

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   The female fly places relatively large eggs on the host. The maggot then hatches and burrows through the surface of the host. Total brood size varies, but typically ranges from 1-10 maggots per host. [6] After infection, Lespesia archippivora maggots go through three larval instars, exit their hosts as a late stage larva and hide under soil ...

8. Infected wounds, maggots and no escape. Gaza’s ... - AOL

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   His wounds have now become infested with maggots. “(He has) advanced second- and third-degree burns covering 80% to 90% of his body,” Dr. Mahmoud Yousef Mughani, a doctor specializing in ...

9. Dirtiest cruise ships investigation finds beer tap sludge and ...

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   The filthiest cruise ships sailing around the United States have been revealed, with live maggots, a dead bird, and “thick brown residue” around a beer tap making up some of the worst issues.