Man-eating' screw worm turns hospital into horror show

43 oumua_don17 6 8/9/2025, 3:14:40 PM telegraph.co.uk ↗

Comments (6)

ricardobeat · 22h ago
If there hadn’t been any cases of human infection in 30 years, can this really be explained by the cattle smuggling? Feels like something else must have changed too.
im3w1l · 22h ago
They mention cattle illegaly raised in nature reserves. There may have been some surviving population of flies there.
Mars008 · 20h ago
There was a 'barrier' somewhere between Mexico and South America where sterile male flies were regularly released. They outnumbered natives and stopped reproduction cycle. Till recently. Now without control flies spread north into their historical territory. With warming climate they can spread even further.

Wiki has a bit of info on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia_hominivorax

throwaway290 · 22h ago
Worms turn into flies which lay eggs in wounds that spawn more worms in a few days. Not great.
unixhero · 22h ago
Another thing is the the stories in this article. They left me with a horror. Not great.
finaard · 22h ago
Hey, I think I've seen that movie.