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Medicinal Maggots
This is, at once, both cool and revolting:
Maggots aren’t high on most people’s favorite-animals list. But maggots--specifically, the larvae of the green blowfly, Phaenicia sericata--can be helpful for the very reason they horrify. By eating dead tissue at a patient’s wound site, maggots may help decrease the risk of post-operative infections, according to an article in the October 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online.
Posted by Stan Taylor on September 16, 2004 09:53 AM
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