Human Bot Fly larvae
The human botfly is found only in Central and South America, and it lays its eggs on a mosquito (or other biting insect). When the mosquito bites a person, the eggs fall onto the skin and are hatched by the warmth of the body. The larvae burrow into the skin and then travel throughout the body—and can move across the blood-brain barrier, and cause meningitis and death after growing inside the brain, eating and destroying it.
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