Man-eating' screw worm turns hospital into horror show

by oumua_don17on 8/9/2025, 3:14 PMwith 7 comments

by ricardobeaton 8/9/2025, 5:32 PM

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.

by throwaway290on 8/9/2025, 5:22 PM

Worms turn into flies which lay eggs in wounds that spawn more worms in a few days. Not great.

by amy_petrikon 8/10/2025, 6:34 PM

Technically you could use ivermectin to stave off a screw worm infection in humans but lol that's silly. What kind of quack doctor would ever use HORSE TRANQUILIZER on a human lol. That's for horses not people. We need common sense pharma development of ivermectin-like drugs, but the human form ivermectin not the horse form ivermectin. Same for amoxicillin, my kids aren't going near that stuff, a freaking CAT ANTIBIOTIC, imagine using that on humans