Man-eating' screw worm turns hospital into horror show

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

Comments (6)

ricardobeat · 4h 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 · 4h ago
They mention cattle illegaly raised in nature reserves. There may have been some surviving population of flies there.
Mars008 · 2h 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 · 4h ago
Worms turn into flies which lay eggs in wounds that spawn more worms in a few days. Not great.
finaard · 4h ago
Hey, I think I've seen that movie.
unixhero · 4h ago
Another thing is the the stories in this article. They left me with a horror. Not great.