Maggots in the human flesh because of a mosquito bite.

Vancouver, Canada. Twenty-eight-year-old Kyrsten Jensen lives in Vancouver Canada. She has a career in medical technology. In early March, Kyrsten has just returned from a trip. When she was getting ready for work, she feel bitten by mosquito. About a quarter inch in diameter red inflamed skin but was in a weird spot; it was an inch in a bit from the bikini line. Kyrsten not worry about mosquito bites, she would still go to the office as usual.

But the next morning she notices something peculiar about the bite. It was a little bit different than any other night had before. This one had a little hole on the top. The hole is about the size of the head of a pin. That was a bit strange because mosquito bite don't have holes on top. But she didn't think too much of it.

Later in the day Kyrsten finds herself in a moment situation was sitting at work and skin was getting really itchy and she was thing to scratch. The bite was not healing at all. Next day in the morning when she in the shower she looks the bite was pretty inflamed. She was looking maybe this is not just a regular mosquito bite maybe this is just a simple ingrown hair.

But a few days later when she was walking down the street suddenly there's a stabbing pain and I was incapacitated. There’s something completely going wrong with this. Is not just standard ingrown hair. When she finally was able to stand up and walk a little bit further and about three minutes later is happened again.

A few days later Kirsten's appointment with the doctor and explained a stabbing pain that she had. And he said that's not normal. The doctor thought it was just an ingrown hair that got infected. To confirm his suspicions the doctor recommends an invasive procedure. Cut it a little bit and sees what’s coming up. But after that, nothing is coming out. It’s just clear fluid. Nothing came out of it. As a precaution the doctor puts Kirsten on a course of antibiotics.

Three days later, Kirsten checks the cut. But he was shocked when she saw something white on top it’s seems like something moved. She is horrified. But she thinks maybe not seeing something correctly and calls the Doctor. She was thinking just being paranoid. The doctor said keep taking the antibiotics and doctors put a bandage on the wound and send Kirsten home.

After a sleepless night, she staggers into the living room and going to take another look. She lifts the bandage off and see clearly retracts into her legs. There was no hallucination this time. It clearly retracted. It was there and gone quickly. She freaking out.

She gets back to the hospital. There Dr. Sheldon Glazer (Royal Columbian Hospital) takes on her case. The doctor cannot see anything move from the wound. He asks where you have been traveling recently Dr. Glazer diagnosis she had parasite living inside. She had a botfly larva

Botfly larva is a maggot that drives under the skin. Inside Kirsten's body the maggot burrows into the tissue under her skin. There it feeds on blood and living cells. And grows in size. To prevent itself for being pulled out, the maggot uses a set of jagged spines that hook onto Kirsten's flesh. Leading to irritation and stabbing pain.

Dr. Glazer tells Kirsten there's a natural way to get rid of botflies eventually the botfly will exit on its own about six to twelve weeks. But Kirsten is unwilling to wait for the creature to crawl out on its own. So Dr. Sheldon Glazer suggests another way to extract the maggot.

We cover the wound with petroleum jelly that for the airtight dressing on top of the petroleum jelly and keep that down. Kirsten waits for the parasite to die about 24 hours. After that, Dr. Glazer removes the dressing. There was a little bit of a tubular bit of maggot that was protruding from the top of the slump. We grasp this little bit of tubular maggot in and pulled on it. So much pain because it was very sharp and the maggot diameter is a little bit larger than the top of the wound. Finally the maggot came out.

Dr. Dan Riskin (Biologist) says that the botfly is so amazing. Is it unusual reproductive strategy. The botfly hijacks mosquito in mid-flight and lays its eggs on the mosquito body with special glue. When the mosquitoes bite a mammalian, the heats from the mammals body cause the glue to melt the eggs fall onto the skin and hatch into larvae enter the host body through a hair follicle or mosquito bite. Between five and 12 weeks later they crawling transform into adult.

Today Kirsten has fully recovered from her wound with the botfly and despite this experience continues to travel the globe. But she will definitely be sure to wear insect repellent at all times

human botflies are native to Mexico in Central and South America traveling in these regions the best way to avoid the botfly maggot and other mosquito-borne infections is to wear deep based insect repellent on all its most parts of the skin