dispatches myiasis during adventure sports（冒险运动期间派遣蝇蛆病）.pdf

DISPATCHES Myiasis during reexamined 1 day later and was found to be largely healed; the forming scar remained somewhat tender and itchy for Adventure 2 months. The maggot was sent to the Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland, and identified as a Sports Race third-stage larva of Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel), the New World screwworm fly. In addition to the New World screwworm fly, an important Old World species, Mikko Seppänen,* Anni Virolainen-Julkunen,*† Chrysoimya bezziana, is also found in tropical Africa and Iiro Kakko,‡ Pekka Vilkamaa,§ and Seppo Meri*† Asia. Travelers who have visited tropical areas may exhibit aggressive forms of obligatory myiases, in which the larvae Conclusions (maggots) invasively feed on living tissue. The risk of a Myiasis is the infestation of live humans and vertebrate traveler’s acquiring a screwworm infestation has been con- animals by fly larvae. These feed on a host’s dead or living sidered negligible, but with the increasing popularity of tissue and body fluids or on ingested food. In accidental or adventure sports and wildlife travel, this risk may need to be reassessed. facultative wound myiasis, the larvae feed on decaying