People may also refer to this treatment as larval therapy, maggot debridement therapy, or larvae therapy. Debridement is the medical term for removing dead, damaged, or infected tissue from a wound.

Maggot therapy, also known as larval debridement therapy, involves placing specially bred fly larvae directly onto wounds that refuse to heal through conventional treatment methods.

A detection of the New World Screwworm closer to the United States will keep the ports closed to livestock from Mexico.

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...

The New World Screwworm (NWS), a devastating parasitic infestation that poses serious health risks to livestock, wildlife, ...

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped containment ...

Oral myiasis, a rare parasitic infestation, occurs when fly larvae invade mouth tissues due to poor hygiene, wounds, or weakened immunity. Primarily found in tropical regions, it causes pain ...