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 ...

While there are plenty of beautiful sights in nature, occurrences in the animal kingdom can also be downright nasty. One such example can be seen in the Instagram post by @natureuncharted. In the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Mina Shenouda, MD, et al/Journal Investig Med High Case Rep./American Federation for Medical Research/CC by 4.0 When ...

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 ...

CARBONDALE – For five weeks, five botflies found a home in Aaron Dallas’ head. “It was weird and traumatic,” said Dallas, of Carbondale. Not to mention painful, he said. “I would get this pain that ...

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 ...

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 ...