A WOMAN with an itchy scalp was left horrified when she discovered botfly larvae had burrowed in her head. The British woman, aged in her 50s, had started to feel unwell after getting back from a trip ...

The man, whose identity has not been disclosed, shared a video on social media documenting the growth of botfly larvae under his skin. He explained that he had purposefully allowed the larvae to ...

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 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A San Gabriel boy was recovering Friday ...

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 ...

Myiasis, or the infiltration of the botfly larvae, is a relatively frequent problem encountered by travelers to parts of Latin America. This is a novel case report that documents a Dermatobia hominis ...

Owing to increasing international travel, physicians will encounter more infectious diseases acquired overseas, which may be bacterial, fungal or parasitic in nature. 1 Knowledge of the geographic ...

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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 ...