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This Flesh-Eating Fly Is Back in the U.S. – Scientists Are Tracking Where It Could Strike Next

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This Flesh-Eating Fly Is Back in the U.S. – Scientists Are Tracking Where It Could Strike Next
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A wound no bigger than a tick bite can be enough for New World screwworm to take hold. A female New World screwworm fly can deposit hundreds of eggs at a time in an animal’s or person’s wound. When those eggs hatch, the larvae do something most maggots do not: they burrow into healthy flesh [...]

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