KENYA: The green toilet fly is an unwanted guest in many people’s homes. Owing to its living environments, which include latrines, toilets and hovering over dead rotting carcasses, many people swat it ...

WARNING: This story contains material some viewers may find disturbing due to its graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — A resident at a Henrico nursing home is sounding ...

WASHINGTON — Think of these wiggly little creatures not as, well, gross, but as miniature surgeons: Maggots are making a medical comeback, cleaning out wounds that just won't heal. Wound-care clinics ...

CHARLOTTE — A Charlotte nursing home is facing a lawsuit after a woman’s wound became infested with maggots, prompting her grandson to seek legal action against the facility and its owners. Bernice ...

Maggot therapy is a wound healing technique in which healthcare professionals apply medical grade maggots to dead or infected tissue to keep the wound clean. It is also known as larval therapy. Maggot ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Social services investigators determined a Henrico County nursing home resident, who said his wound became infested with maggots, was neglected at his facility due to a lapse in ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — An Iowa woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly neglecting an adult in her care, who was found with several ailments, including a maggot-infested wound. According to court ...