Maggots are used to treat chronic wounds. They excrete these enzymes that break down dead tissue. And then they hoove it up to eat. A maggot essentially secretes these enzymes onto a wound and then sucks up the decomposed tissue. Many patients find this so revolting that biamont has found alternative ways to give people these maggots, for instance, putting them in a bag. Even during the First World War, they saved thousands of toes and fingers of soldiers.
The country has been slinging missiles skyward at an alarming pace, and with ever-greater technological advancement. We ask why things are heating up, and how the West might at last cool them down. Reforms to Indonesia’s criminal code that sparked mass protests in 2019 are back; restrictions including an extramarital-sex ban look set to pass. And Wales’s booming leech-and-maggot business.
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