During the hotter months of the year, as food scraps decompose more rapidly and their stench becomes more prominent, fly and maggot infestations become particularly problematic. But luckily ...

A council scrutiny committee has demanded answers over failings at a care home which was rated inadequate after an inspection found holes in the walls and loose electrical sockets.

I read your column regularly and would like you to address maggot infestations in older animals. I had an outdoor collie who was elderly. One day he couldn’t get up, and when I lifted his tail ...

The larvae of the tumbu fly are parasitic and when they get under the skin of mammals – including humans – they can live there until they hatch into maggots. This parasitic infestation is ...

The Gauteng Department of Health denies reports of a disease outbreak in Pretoria North clinics, confirming no widespread ...

But is a maggot infestation from hair extensions really possible? “It is a possibility but not quite plausible,” says Muli Musyoka, a trichologist at Hairclub Clinic in Nairobi. “The hair ...

Live maggot larvae in damaged kitchen floors; blocked wash basins filled with cooking equipment; a significant fly infestation; cross-contamination of raw and ready-to-eat food; dirty equipment ...

The Gauteng health department has dismissed claims of an outbreak of myiasis, a disease linked to maggots in Pretoria North clinics. The department said an investigation into the claims found no ...

a condition caused by a maggot infestation. It is explained that the Odi District Hospital attended to five patients who were suspected to be affected, resulting in three confirmed clinical ...

Over the past weekend, Odi District Hospital in Tshwane attended to five patients with suspected myiasis, a condition caused by maggot infestation. Three of these were clinically diagnosed with ...

Live maggot larvae in damaged kitchen floors; blocked wash basins filled with cooking equipment; a significant fly infestation; cross-contamination of raw and ready-to-eat food; dirty equipment and ...