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External links
editthe first external link, http://www.vexman.com/botfly.htm, charges $1.79USD via paypal to view any content. I didn't want to outright remove the source immediately, but it probably should be if it's essentially a pay site Audrina 04:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Remedies
editIt seems that the working remedy (venom extractor syringes) should be moved toward the top of the list and folk remedies moved toward the end. I did it. Redhookesb 23:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
The one person I know who got infested with one was a biologist who wanted it intact to keep, so he strapped meat to the site and the maggot burrowed out of him into the steak. But no RS on that. Demigord (talk) 20:24, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Are the pictures accurate?
editI got a bit suspicious after editing out some typos, and seeing one of the pictures labeled "Skin Cancer." It does look much more like skin cancer than any sort of bug burrowing, so someone who knows something about these insects could verify. Also, I feel that the layout isn't too good, but I'm not sure whether it's alright to take out the "step-by-step" thing. Geht (talk) 05:11, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
poor article
editfrom background down the article is a bevy of unsubstantiated claims, ranging from the poorly informed to the outright erroneous.129.252.69.43 (talk) 19:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- The background, stages and symptoms part were written by a registered user, whose only edit was this rubbish. --217.93.208.133 (talk) 22:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
(Dead) reference 1 has a different link
editThe reference number 1 can be retrieved at the following link: http://phc.amedd.army.mil/PHC%20Resource%20Library/HumanBotFlyMyiasisJan2010.pdf
US Army Public Health Command (provisional), formerly U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, January 2010 155.105.7.43 (talk) 01:30, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
Use of 'vector' as a verb
editThe following sentence appears in the article: "Dermatobia fly eggs have been shown to be vectored by over 40 species of mosquitoes and muscoid flies, as well as one species of tick;"
In the article, the word vector is linked to this page, which seems to be correct. However, as a reader, I still cannot figure out the meaning of the above sentence. If a vector is an agent that transmits a pathogen into another living being, then what does is mean for the eggs to be vectored by over 40 species? I'm not an expert on this, so I do not know how to fix it, but maybe the sentence could be rewritten to better convey its original message. --Cody.berdinis (talk) 00:53, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
- The mother botfly doesn't lay her eggs directly on the human host, but rather on a fly or mosquito. Since the fly or mosquito is what actually carries the egg to the human host, the fly or mosquito is the vector, not the botfly. I'm sure the mother botfly will grab and lay her eggs on any suitable fly or mosquito she finds, so it's not surprising that there's a long list of species that have been used that way. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:11, 25 October 2015 (UTC)