When parasites get personal: A tick in the nose & a larva in the armpit (but that’s OK!)
A few years ago, I found a parasite in my armpit. It was the larva of a blowfly, and I knew pretty well what it was, based on where I’d gotten it – or at least I thought I did. Kibale National Park, Uganda, is known internationally for its diversity of nonhuman primates and among smaller circles for its high frequency of furuncular myiasis, a condition caused by parasitic fly larvae burrowing into the skin of a host.
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