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The 36-year-old woman (who hasn't been identified, because, duh), went on her honeymoon in Belize where everything went according to plan-until two months after she arrived back home and noticed ...

The surgeon was correct: Doctors used local anesthesia and a 5 millimeter incision to remove the object beneath the woman’s skin, which was identified as a human botfly larva — essentially, a maggot — ...

This is an actual video of a botfly larva being pulled from a person's lip. This infection likely occurred after a botfly laid its eggs on a mosquito, which were then transferred to a human via a ...

Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly, is an obligate parasite endemic to Mexico, South America, and Central America. The female catches another insect, such as a mosquito, and attaches up to 30 eggs ...

A U.K. woman who complained of general illnesses and itchy raised lesions on her scalp after a trip to Argentina likely never guessed her symptoms were stemming from wriggling botfly larvae that were ...

The larva of the human botfly (though not the one Florida doctors found under a newlywed’s skin) in the third and final stage of development that it takes inside a mammal’s body, according to ...