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  2. Maggot therapy - Wikipedia

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    Maggots in medical packaging. Maggot therapy improves healing in chronic ulcers. [1] In diabetic foot ulcers there is tentative evidence of benefit. [3] A Cochrane review of methods for the debridement of venous leg ulcers found maggot therapy to be broadly as effective as most other methods, but the study also noted that the quality of data was poor.

  3. Insects in medicine - Wikipedia

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    The venom of the Red harvester ant was used to treat rheumatism, arthritis, and poliomyelitis via the immunological reaction produced by its sting. This technique, in which ants are allowed to sting affected areas in a controlled manner, is still used in some arid rural areas of Mexico. [2]

  4. Myiasis - Wikipedia

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    Maggot therapy was common in the United States during the 1930s. However, during the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of antibiotics, maggot therapy was used only as a last resort for very serious wounds. [3] Lately maggots have been making a comeback due to the increased resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. [42]

  5. Disturbing video shows hundreds of maggots removed from ... - AOL

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    By RYAN GORMAN Horrifying video has emerged of doctors pulling maggots out of a man's ear. The unidentified Indian man went to a doctor's office to complain about hearing a non-stop buzzing sound.

  6. Making money with maggots: Lessons from the bug trade - AOL

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    They were looking for 5,000 maggots immediately for a new reality TV show, "Truth or Consequences." They had to be clean maggots, Making money with maggots: Lessons from the bug trade

  7. Calliphoridae - Wikipedia

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    Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is the medical use of selected, laboratory-raised fly larvae for cleaning nonhealing wounds. Medicinal maggots perform debridement by selectively eating only dead tissue. Lucilia sericata (Phaenicia sericata), or the common green bottlefly, is the preferred species used in maggot therapy. [58]

  8. Family live with sewage spills and maggots in 'horrific ... - AOL

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    Fauzia's family are one of a record 123,000 households living in temporary accommodation in England.

  9. Medical maggots - Wikipedia

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