#maggots — Public Fediverse posts

“Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions”*…

Our human war against infectious microbes has escalated. As bioscience has produced a stream of anti-bacterial and anti-fungal treatments, the continuously-evolving micro-organisms they target evolve in ways to protect themselves… and so our antibiotics become less effective.

This antibiotic resistance is estimated to result in more than 2.8 million infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and more than 35,000 people die as a result. Antibiotic resistance adds $20 billion in excess direct healthcare costs each year in the US. Additional costs to society for lost productivity could be as high as $35 billion a year. All of this is driven in some measure by over-prescription (the CDC reckons that over 25% of antibiotics prescribed in US outpatient settings are unnecessary)– but the evolutionary dynamics of our microbial “enemies” being what they are, the problem would be material in any case.

So effective non-antibiotic treatments are especially valuable. Ian Ingram reports on one of the latest..

The FDA cleared medical-grade Australian sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) larvae in what maker Cuprina Holdings believes marks the first debridement product to use this particular species.

Dubbed Medifly Maggots, the product [pictured above] is indicated for removing dead or infected tissue from non-healing necrotic skin and soft tissue wounds — such as pressure or neuropathic foot ulcers — and non-healing traumatic or post-surgical wounds.

A healthcare worker is required to oversee the application of the prescription maggot product, which was cleared based on demonstration of equivalence to the previously cleared medical-grade green bottle blowfly larvae — Lucilia sericata (Medical Maggots).

“Maggot debridement therapy has earned its place in modern wound care, and adding a second FDA-cleared species strengthens the entire field,” Ronald Sherman, MD, the company’s medical and scientific director, said in a statement.

“Lucilia cuprina has a meaningful international track record,” and the new clearance “gives clinicians and their patients more flexibility in how this therapy is delivered,” added Sherman, who has worked on the development of medical-grade maggots for decades and was instrumental in getting the first product cleared by the FDA in 2004.

According to recent estimates, anywhere from 1-2% of people in developed countries have chronic wounds, which are associated with greater risks of limb amputation and mortality.

Maggots, long used for clearing dead or non-healing tissue before the invention of antibiotics, can spare antibiotics and have also been associated with a lower risk of lower-limb amputation in diabetics with non-healing lesions…

As poet A. R. Ammons wrote (in “Catalyst“): “Honor the maggot, supreme catalyst.”

“New Type of Maggot Cleared by FDA as Medical Treatment,” from @medpagetoday.com.

* Christopher Moore

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As we rethink remedies, we might spare a thought for Alice Stewart; she died on this date in 2002. A physician and epidemiologist, she specialized in social medicine and the effects of radiation on health. Starting in WW II, she investigated the health effects of exposure to TNT in ammunitions factories, of carbon tetrachloride, and a prevalence of tuberculosis among shoe industry workers.

In the 1950s, Stewart led a pioneering study of x-rays (especially the pre-natal x-rays of expectant mothers) as a cause of childhood cancer. Her results were initially regarded as unsound, but were eventually accepted worldwide; the use of medical x-rays during pregnancy and early childhood was curtailed as a result– though it took around two and a half decades.

And after a visit to the U.S. in 1974, Stewart consulted on a major investigation of the health of workers in the nuclear industry there: she examined the sickness records of employees in the Hanford (WA) plutonium production plant and found a far higher incidence of radiation-induced ill health than was noted in official studies (produced by the nuclear industry).

Stewart was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1986 “for bringing to light in the face of official opposition the real dangers of low-level radiation.”  In 1997 she was invited to become the first Chair of the European Committee on Radiation Risk.

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A. Abbot's declared state of emergency for all TX counties
B. 11 of 12 screwworm cases in the US are in TX
C. Newsmax map omits TX from screwworm alert states, inexplicably
D. Concerned to see my primary #SummerCamp destination, PA, included
>Def improvement over those ticks that can silently make you allergic to meat; these flies will leave very painful bites.
#screwworm #maggots #ticks #bite #meat #allergy #alert #camping #hiking #pants #LongSleeves #state #emergency #cattle #goat #dog

Meet The Italian Cheese Guinness Called The World’s Most Dangerous

Cheese is a global institution that comes in many forms — creamy cheeses, nutty cheeses, soft cheeses, hard cheeses, some with herbs, some with mold, some that are white, some that are gold. One t…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancheese ##Maggots #casumarzu #Cheese #differentcheeses #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2528081/meet-the-italian-cheese-guinness-called-the-worlds-most-dangerous-2/

"Shocking level of betrayal"

Well done America...
Well done.
Really leaning into the bad guy role.

We were playing checkers
Putin was playing chess.
Congratulation putin, putting agent #Krasnov in the Whitest house was a master move.

#Greenland #Nazis #Maggots #Maga

Maggots, an Efficient Source of Protein, May Become Next Superfood for Humans

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/maggots-incredibly-efficient-source-protein-may-make-them-next-superfood-humans-180987847/

#HackerNews #Maggots #Superfood #Protein #Efficiency #Nutrition #SustainableFood

Yyyyeah, so we're just gonna go ahead and prepare for a draft, so if you just wanna go ahead and die for the cause? Thanks a bunch America

#meme #memes #shitpost #officespace #warcrimes #america #trump #maggots

@hstone519

Hepatitis and Flu are now #woke

#cdc #maggots

Both images by #Conservative / #Putinistas / #Maggots

Irony as well as reason are dead, buried and concreted over.

#NoKings

Hahaha...
What a twat. Imagine this being one of your #pics in the last moments before you reap what you sow.

#maggots

27% of you fuckos in the USA support trump...

Not you
Not you
YOU FASCIST SCUMBAG!

#tRump #Maggots

This is how you need to treat these looters every time they show their face in public.

#eattherich #maggots
https://imgur.com/gallery/this-is-what-you-have-to-do-public-shame-loud-angry-r18x3v3

Bird Wings Good; Bat Wings Bad

Have you ever noticed that good religious creatures, like angels, have what can only be described as bird wings? Meanwhile, evil religious creatures, such as demons, have wings that are blatantly like that of a bat.

The only bad thing I can think of for a bat is that they can give rabies to humans whereas birds can’t. The reason they are so susceptible to rabies is because they are closer to humans than birds are. They are mammals, just like us. Whereas birds are part of the bird family of vertebrates. Birds are descended from the dinosaurs and have their own diseases to worry about.

Mammals survived the apocalypse that wiped out the dinosaurs (except birds) and basically took over almost all the niches that dinosaurs were in. Dinosaurs were tall so mammals became giraffes. Dinosaurs were big so mammals became the blue whale, the biggest creature that has ever lived. Dinosaurs could fly so bats took to the sky.

Bats nurse their young, thus proving they are a caring species of mammal.

Another thing which seemingly makes them bad is that they come out at night. But this is really more of a testament about how birds are evil in daylight. Bats don’t brave the day because they are likely to be dinner for some bird with 100 million years more of flying experience. And those daytime birds can be big with nasty talons and sharp beaks.

As a fellow mammal, we should be proud of our bat cousins. They can fly in the dark because they use sonar. They have good vocalizations that their good ears can pick up and that their good brains can use to figure out what the terrain is – even in the dark.

Still think birds are superior in the good/evil department? Then why is it a murder of crows, a conspiracy of ravens, a plague of grackles and a squabble of seagulls?

Actually a squabble isn’t that bad. So suddenly I see the truth. Bad is associated with black birds and bats because they are black.

This dark/ light thing of good and evil has got to go. Termites are white so they must be good. Maggots are white so they must be good. Polar bears are white so they must be good. It’s just not true. Black labs, black horses and even black cats can be very good.

Maybe I’ll retreat into fantasy which has some stories of good dragons who incidentally have giant black bat wings. It’s more realistic than the angel/ demon characterizations of religion.

#angels #batWings #batsNurseTheirYoung #birdWings #black #blueWhales #cats #conspiracyOfRavens #day #dayBirdsAreEvilToBats #demons #dinosaurs #dragons #evil #giraffes #good #horses #labs #maggots #mammals #murderOfCrows #night #plagueOfGrackles #polarBears #rabies #sonar #squabbleOfSeagulls #termites #white

@Nonilex #MAGAs are #maggots feeding on #trump #offal

#PuppetRegime #Maggots #MAGA #UkraineKrieg #UkraineWar #Trump
Trump demands Putin sign ceasefire #PuppetRegime #UkraineWar #Trump #Putin
https://youtube.com/shorts/wTQFvomTcuo?si=-4666OLij2NXLBZK

Neanderthals may have eaten maggots as part of their diet

https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-may-have-eaten-maggots-part-their-diet

#HackerNews #Neanderthals #Diet #Maggots #Paleontology #Archaeology #AncientHumans

Stand UP USA, and anyone else for that matter

handsoff2025.com/

Heck, not just the US. Hands off the world!

It would be great to see protests in all the countries being negatively impacted by trump and his bootlickering maggots.

#usa #standup #FOTUS47 #maggots #worldpoli #uspoli #cdnpoli #europepolitics

Könnt ich in Dauerschleife mitsingen
Until all Nazis are dead
#Maggots are getting fat

Last month, 01/07/25

Please share this.

#jeanmarielepen #jmlp #rassemblementnational #frontnational #fascism #antifascism #farright #justice #neverforgive #bertoldbrecht #primolevi #corpse #politics #artist #caricature #blackandwhite #pencil #scalesofgrey #pig #maggots #jourdefete #jordanbardella #ericciotti #emmanuelmacron #marinelepen #authoritarian #freedom #nationalism #colonialism #france

TPWD Encourages Monitoring, Reporting of Animals Affected by New World Screwworm

"AUSTIN — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) asks hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts in South Texas to monitor for animals affected by New World Screwworm (NWS) after a recent detection in Mexico... the maggots burrow or screw into flesh with sharp mouth hooks. Wounds can become larger, and an infestation can often cause serious, deadly damage or death to the infected animal....NWS primarily infests livestock but can also affect humans and wildlife including deer and birds."

https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20241230b #maggots #screwworm

Mmmmmm... Yummy (note: swapped the preview image)

CBS: Texas officials warn of "maneater" screwworm that burrows into open wounds, eyes and mouths to lay eggs
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-maneater-screwworm-warning-open-wounds/ #maggots

How #maggots may be key to solving #rape cases

#Scientists found that #larvae can collect and retain #DNA #evidence from #sexualassault #crimescenes.

https://talker.news/2025/01/02/how-maggots-may-be-key-to-solving-rape-cases/

@ai6yr

When bad people tell you who they are.
It pays to take what they say seriously.

#Gopniks #maggots #Nazis #accelerationists

Just noticed how great semi-cooked #gnocchi would be as #maggots in a gaping wound made by a #TRex... #JurassicMaggots 🤩

I think Maggots need to start designing some good looking uniforms now, before they exterminate all the purple haired folks.

Desert camo looks so boring in the parades.
And standing over a fresh mass grave of woke enemies of the state with thumbs up, you are not going to stand out in the pic.

#fashion #maggots #fascism

"We’re now at that remarkable point where #Trump’s #sociopathic #narcissism is working synergistically with his advancing #dementia, leaving us with an incredibly #nasty, #malevolent, and #Machiavellian bowl of oatmeal"

Yup. That's it.

#Slimy oatmeal you wouldn't serve to anyone, except #MAGA #maggots

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-notified-caught-confessing-levin-interview/