In case you didn’t know this could happen, a woman in Greece sought medical help after she sneezed and maggots came out of ...

How did the larvae end up in her sinuses? A 58-year-old woman sneezed out live maggots after fly larvae developed inside her ...

According to the report, the woman worked outdoors on a Greek island in proximity to grazing livestock. She recalled being surrounded by flies on a particularly hot and dry day in September.

Oestrus ovis, a cosmopolitan dipteran parasite commonly known as the sheep nose botfly, is responsible for oestrosis in small ruminants and ophthalmomyiasis in humans. In sheep and goats, the larvae ...