Treatment for vaginal myiasis involves antibiotics and surgical removal of the infected tissue. You probably don't need to worry about maggots making a home in your vagina, but this very rare ...

She had no idea it was being caused by the maggots that had settled there. Doctors at the hospital explained that the condition is called oral myiasis, a very serious health issue caused by the ...

Doctors treating the man wrote: "The discovery of maggots in both the penis and urinary bladder is an uncommon and alarming occurrence." They said urogenital myiasis in the penis is not uncommon ...

The whitish fat short worms coming from your baby’s skin are called maggots and your baby is suffering from a disease called myiasis. Myiasis is the parasitic infestation of the body of a live ...

In the later situation carefully controlled myiasis can even be of benefit to the host in 'maggot therapy' (Sherman et al., 2000). Bloodsucking larvae of the African species Auchmeromyia senegalensis ...

Doctors believe there are only a handful of reported cases of maggots infesting the penis, called penile myiasis, and even fewer of them travelling to the bladder. The case was detailed in a ...

Dr. Ronald Sherman started studying myiasis and maggot therapy during medical school and published his first paper on the topic in 1983. He started the first prospective studies of maggot therapy ...

The Gauteng health department has dismissed claims of an outbreak of myiasis, a disease linked to maggots in Pretoria North clinics. The department said an investigation into the claims found no ...

The Gauteng Department of Health denies reports of a disease outbreak in Pretoria North clinics, confirming no widespread ...