BENGALURU: A live botfly larva was surgically removed from a woman’s scalp by doctors at a city hospital a few days ago. The 26-year-old woman, who works for a wildlife conservation NGO, approached ...

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 ...

As we did with Ms. W, removal is often accomplished under local anesthesia with a simple cruciate incision and extraction of the larva by gentle traction. 1 Surgical excision of the entire lesion, ...

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 ...

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 ...