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A U.K. woman who complained of general illnesses and itchy raised lesions on her scalp after a trip to Argentina likely never guessed her symptoms were stemming from wriggling botfly larvae that were ...

The 36-year-old woman (who hasn't been identified, because, duh), went on her honeymoon in Belize where everything went according to plan-until two months after she arrived back home and noticed ...

A bride who spent her honeymoon in Belize returned to her Florida home with more than just lovely memories of Mayan ruins and crystal-clear Caribbean lagoons. Little did she know that she had picked ...

The larva of the human botfly (though not the one Florida doctors found under a newlywed’s skin) in the third and final stage of development that it takes inside a mammal’s body, according to ...

TAMPA, Fla.— A Florida women went on her honeymoon in Central America and came back with more than just memories. Doctors at Memorial Hospital of Tampa said they discovered a human botfly larva living ...

Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly, is an obligate parasite endemic to Mexico, South America, and Central America. The female catches another insect, such as a mosquito, and attaches up to 30 eggs ...