The USDA best describes the etymology of the name screwworm: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...