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Article: Medical maggots successfully treat wounds in first month at Arizona hospital.
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- AZ Daily Star
- Article date:
- October 11, 2004
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Byline: Carla McClain
Oct. 11--You think of them as slimy, wiggly, hideous things that feast on rotting flesh and spread ugly infections.
They are, in fact, tiny, pristine micro-surgeons that meticulously cut out dead tissue, then spread antibiotic fluid to clean a wound and start the healing.
They are maggots -- medical maggots. And they have arrived at a neighborhood near you.
"I could feel something moving. I couldn't really tell, just a kind of cold feeling. They were moving a little. Then it stopped like everything had been cleaned out," said Russell "Rusty" MacDonald, 57, who has endured two days of "maggot therapy" at St. ...