
Maggots in medicine
Discovery
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How to Disinfect a Wound With a Bio Bag
We start with the size of the maggots. They're just tiny little white creamy color. You can get a bio bag, a minimum of 50 larvae inside of there and it's a 10 by 10 centimeter square. So they've got enough reserves that they can ship for that 48 hour time point until they need to be onto a patient. And you can just set that in a wound then and it can set there for three to four days for the treatment time.
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