A Virginia mother is suing a funeral home after she approached her son's casket to the stomach-churning sight of his face, ...

A corpse will heat itself without any maggots just from the activity of bacteria already inside your body. In experiments where maggots were excluded, decaying bodies still generated heat that was ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Tabitha Worrell is taking legal action after it is said she was told "don't you make a scene" as ...

Note: Some of the details in this story are disturbing. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A Chesapeake family has filed a lawsuit ...

Some crime scenes don’t have bodies. What they have is a place where a body was, and a suspiciously large amount of maggots. Up until recently, the maggots could only have been a very bad sign.

If you ever come across a body that’s so badly burned you can’t identify the corpse, don’t worry: just keep your eyes open for maggots. Because a police forensics team in Mexico managed to ...

Well, finding fly larvae or maggots is a good clue. Otherwise, there is no specific "maggot in body" screening test. As a result, patients may get misdiagnosed initially.

Maggots in a wound or a body part need to be removed by a medical professional, the CDC says. Don’t try to remove them yourself. CONTRIBUTING Greta Cross, John Bacon, Mike Snider.

Without medical intervention, maggots may also keep growing in your body. Insider's takeaway Myiasis in humans, especially in the genital area, is extremely rare.