[Aussie Dasher]

This COULD explain Nancy Pelosi...

Enjoy your breakfast, folks!!! :-)

[keithtoo]

I thought that maggots only ate dead flesh.

[TimesDomain]

The maggots are what kept the poor man alive. They only eat the dead/rotting flesh.

[cripplecreek]

The maggots probably saved his life.

[JRios1968]

Enjoy your breakfast, folks!!! :-)

Oh, yeah?? Here's my reply to you!

[Gingersnap]

Maggot infestations are a serious health problem. When maggots are used therapeutically, they come from one of three types and they are removed and replaced within a certain number of hours.

While maggots selectively eat necrotic flesh, they also make flesh rot by excreting enzymes to kill it.

Wild maggots feasting for days on a wound will always cause tissue destruction and infections.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Many lives and limbs were saved as a result of discovering that maggots only ate dead tissue. How can it be that this man was nearly killed, by maggots who only eat dead tissue? The person who wrote this story, has their facts a bit twisted. Me thinks there's a deliberate attempt to cover up something...

[Sopater]

Although medical treatment with maggots can be benificial, it's not always desirable when it happens naturally.

Naturally occurring maggot infestations can of course be very harmful. In some fly species, the larval forms feed upon live tissue as well as decaying material, and the larvae can be a big problem. For example, the screw worm fly (see picture at left) is sometimes called the 'flesh-eater'. About twice the size of typical house fly, it lays its eggs on the edges of wounds, or in the mucous membranes of body openings. The newly hatched larvae burrow downwards into the tissue, causing massive tissue damage and sometimes death.

from: MAGGOTS - Warning: some graphic images on this page...

[Jeff Chandler]

Man 'being eaten alive by maggots'

At first I thought this was an article about President Bush's relationship with the press.