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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 ...

It’s a nickname the 7-year-old San Gabriel resident gave himself after a botfly larva latched onto his scalp and burrowed inside his head during a trip to Costa Rica with his parents last month. “It ...

In a recent issue of BMJ Case Reports, doctors with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield detailed a medical mystery that makes one's skin crawl. Soon after ...

CARBONDALE – For five weeks, five botflies found a home in Aaron Dallas’ head. “It was weird and traumatic,” said Dallas, of Carbondale. Not to mention painful, he said. “I would get this pain that ...

Entomologist and wildlife photographer Piotr Naskrecki is not squeamish. He recently allowed two human bot fly larvae to grow to maturity under his skin and documented the process in a short film.

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 ...

This week on Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet, a dog is rushed in for emergency surgery and a rabbit has some Bot Fly larvae growing inside it. Some growths on the neck of a family pet have ruptured and ...

A video of a botfly larvae being extracted from a kitten's nostril has been watched more than 12 million times. Horrifying videos have emerged on TikTok recently showing removal of the parasites from ...

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 ...