Although not every patient would jump at the chance, several doctors across the country are warming up to the notion of treating hard-to-heal infections with an age-old nemesis: maggots.
This treatment has been used, perhaps unintentionally, for thousands of years. During wartimes, soldiers have sometimes been left for days with infected wounds that became infested with maggots. Doctors would later be surprised to learn that the patients remained healthy despite a lack of medical attention.