It basically then grows in your body for two weeks, forming a growing purple bump that gradually gets bigger. The larvae (worms) then find a delicious looking host in the form of an animal or human, penetrate the skin and burrow. It all starts when the female Mango fly deposit 100-300 eggs in sandy soil, often contaminated with faeces, which then hatch. So you're thinking "poor puppies but at least humans are safe", but here is where you would be wrong! These Mango worms can burrow into human skin too, causing boils on the backs of arms or around the waist, lower back, or buttocks. They took 12 worms out of one of my dogs, and seven out of the other.” “She started squeezing and this little worm, they sort of looked like cutworms you find in the garden, started coming out. The doctor squeezed the boil-like sores on the dogs and larvae came out. I thought ‘gee, that’s weird’.” While she and the puppies were at the vet to get their regular injections, Van Heerden mentioned the bumps to the vet who had heard about other instances of Mango Flies – a relative of the Bot fly – in Gauteng, South Africa. I noticed these things, they felt like marbles under their skin. She said: “My rescue dogs are still young enough to need immunisations every few months. This sounds like something out if a horror story but one that arrived on Lee van Heerden's doorstep after she spotted some weird looking bumps on her dogs. Are you paranoid about bugs? Ever had a nightmare where insects just come crawling out of your leg? Well, be terrified because this is now a reality – these bugs can literally burrow into your skin, lay eggs IN your skin which will eventually result in worms crawling out of the boil-like bumps.
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