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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What looked like a pimple or an insect bite on Jessica and Garrett Gee's toddler's head during a trip to Botswana turned out to be far more invasive. "WARNING this video includes worms and is NOT for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman from Florida discovered a maggot in her groin after returning from her honeymoon in Belize. The human botfly larvae appears to have burrowed into her skin when she went horse riding during the ...

A bride who spent her honeymoon in Belize returned to her Florida home with more than just lovely memories of Mayan ruins and crystal-clear Caribbean lagoons. Little did she know that she had picked ...

On Wednesday, doctors in France reported a rare case of tiny sheep bot fly larvae—aka maggots—infesting the outer surface of a man’s eyeball. The small, spiky larvae were seen slithering around the ...

What would qualify as a bad vacation? How about getting a maggot in your groin? There aren't too many situations where maggots and vacation go well together. The same thing is true with the words ...