However, the maggots from the black blow fly are used in a medical practice called maggot therapy.

The use of black blow fly maggots in maggot therapy is common.

Using maggot therapy with livestock could be beneficial in many ways.

Between 1930 and 1940, more than 100 medical papers were published on maggot therapy.

More than 300 American hospitals employed maggot therapy during the 1940s.

Limb salvage rates with maggot therapy are about 40% to 50% according to the medical literature.

In 1995, a handful of doctors in four countries were using maggot therapy.

There are over 800 health care centers in the United States that have utilized maggot therapy.

Over 4,000 therapists are using maggot therapy in 20 countries.

The wound must be of a type which can actually benefit from the application of maggot therapy.