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Maggots: Coming to a Hospital Near You

Posted by timothy on from the maggots-and-leeches-oh-my dept.

Pokinatcha Punk writes "Forget breakthroughs in biotech. According to Yahoo! News maggot's may make their way back into popular medicine. According to the article 'maggots are remarkably efficient at cleaning up infected wounds by eating dead tissue and killing off bacteria that could block the healing process.'"

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  1. repetitive, much? by lambent · · Score: 4, Informative


    This 'story' hits the rounds every few months or so. It's distributed only for it's gross-out factor (ewwww, bugs!) and the cool (air-quotes) "maybe all that new-fangled science isn't the be-all-and-end-all" vibe.

    I swear, I've read this same thing 20 times before.