By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Now that 2019 is officially over and all the data has been tabulated, the numbers are available to create the “Most Viewed Stories of 2019” on the website....

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), myiasis is infection with a fly larva, usually occurring in tropical and subtropical areas. There are a number of ways to contract it–getting an...

Chrysomya bezziana, the Old World screw-worm, is a primary myiasis-producing fly that attacks a wide range of warm-blooded animals throughout Africa, the Indian sub-continent, and Southeast Asia from Taiwan...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported a sporadic case of human myiasis caused by the Old World screwworm in a 46-year-old woman with underlying conditions. She lived with family...

This rare and quite disgusting condition is known as myiasis, an infection or infestation of the body of animals, and more rarely humans with the larva of botflies and related species. In other words:...

If being infested with maggots wasn’t bad enough, it turns out that they can carry bacteria that can be worse, even deadly.  A 69-year-old French man apparently died of just such a bacterial infection,...