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American Federation for Medical Research/CC by 4.0 A 36-year-old Florida woman discovered that she had a human botfly larva living under her skin following a trip to Belize. The woman, who ...

A dog owner has racked up over 36 million views after showing her at-home removal process of a botfly larva that burrowed into her 14-year-old Yorkshire Terrier. Most of Christina Curtis-Bon's ...

Unfortunately, the unwrapping happened on the top of his noggin. Carlton's scalp had become home to a human botfly larva, a spiny parasitic maggot that digs into living human flesh, feeds on the ...

A nasal botfly larva lodged in the nostril of a recently-killed spike buck. Natalie Krebs You think you’ve seen it all as a hunter. Gut-shot messes, engorged-tick infestations, predator-shredded ...

"WARNING this video includes worms and is NOT for the faint of heart," wrote The Bucket List Family mom Jessica, in an Instagram post showing the video of her husband slowly pulling a botfly larva ...

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 ...

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.

You sick fuck. You totally did. Here’s something I’m personally really enjoying, and yet in a very real way has ruined my life – botfly larvae removal videos. Here’s my favourite.

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...