Parasites are organisms that live on other creatures and depend on the host organism for survival. Humans can become hosts to many parasitic creatures, including insect larvae. The resulting ...

A 59-year-old woman from Chiang Mai, Thailand, endured a week of nasal congestion and facial pain before a nosebleed unveiled a horrifying truth: her nostrils were infested with hundreds of maggots.

The term myiasis indicates the invasion of tissues or organs of man or animals by dipterous larvae. Several species of Diptera can act as ectoparasites, feeding on live or necrotic tissues.

A 65-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with respiratory distress, congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation thought to be secondary to pneumonia and myocardial infarction.

Mexico has reported the first-ever human case of myiasis caused by a screwworm. According to Mexico's Health Ministry, the case was detected in a 77-year-old woman from the municipality of Acacoyagua ...

Myiasis is a type of infection of a fly larva (maggot) in human tissues. This infection can catch you mostly in tropical and subtropical areas. In myiasis, there is a constant feeling of itching, a ...

Vaginal myiasis is so rare that only a few case studies have explored this condition in humans. It happens when flies lay eggs in the vaginal area — the larvae that hatch and feed on vaginal tissue.

A full-term female infant was born in late September 2013 via spontaneous vaginal delivery at a central New Jersey hospital. Meconium-stained amniotic fluid was noted at delivery, and Apgar scores ...

From a man who got 'food poisoning' in his penis, to another whose scrotum swelled to the size of a beach ball, here's a round-up of medical case reports involving todgers DOCTORS were shocked to ...