Researcher raises botflies under his skin I NOVA I PBS
“I know it sounds weird, but I felt an almost father-child relationship with this organism that was growing in my body,” the entomologist says.
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@Fierythefaerie
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Did you allow it to run free and now infest and spread to other people and areas
@bartek...
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
So… Are you saying that not only woman can hatch the eggs? I'm sure you are proud of your kid! BTW, why you did abortion to the first one?
@cocoa_bean_queen
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
🫢😖🤢
@EDNANDANA
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Don’t won’t to see disgusting
@takkik282
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
I imagine the guy waking up after a facehugger got him : "what a chance to see an alien live cycle!"
@nelsonsavarie5206
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
bahhaha what!!! right when i thought i heard every thing
@sarah64897
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
They kill animals, gross
@PeterLassig
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Best comment from the FB post of this video by Marlis Eleanor Slater: "My repulsion lasted longer than 3 seconds."
@kimberleypex8290
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
No parasites in my body ! YAK ! GROOSE ! BAH !
@nomutomu4626
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Say, are you fatherless perhaps?
@Moonraker45
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
You’re an idiot
@574882
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Alright this is enough internet, I need to sleep
@panleygoobis1289
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
kill them all.
@odawakacka
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
WOW, that's awesome!
Only a true researcher will do such weird things.
@anonsidious358
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
FOR SCIENCE!
And he took that personally.
@MRogersneighborhood
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Disgusting I would have cut my arm off
@timberrr1126
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Proof that men can create life.
@somnuswaltz5586
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
thats fucked up 🤢
@EStbird
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Ok you people are just a tad to odd for me but to each his own, I would immediately have to get that bastard out of me!
@antoniocarrasco5098
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Hell nah, algorithm!
@Echo8646HU
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Why would anyone do that? Just kidnap someone to be a test subject.
@Lume-e3b
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Not all botfly larvae produce painkillers or produce antibiotic. MOST parasites do NOT. MANY of them cause pain, inflammation, itching, infection, sores, sepsis and necrosis.
@chicksandwich
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Mentally ill guy
@chewcacachewpipi8879
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
There's a lot of things I'd do for science, this isn't one of them.
@KaijuParadiseStuffOOO
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
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@JasonFormat
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Throw his ass in the asylums
@MobiletaskforceNu-7hammerdown
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
New fear unlocked with mosquitos
@Knobbler
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
TL;DW: ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew
@lambofeaby_1262
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Freak
@daniexisde564
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
it almost seems like he's ashamed to have felt revolted at all. it's okay buddy, it's only natural
@chubbygardener
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
I saw those 45 years ago. I'm from Venezuela, they're not common at all in urban areas but we lived in a suburbs just sided by a national park at the edge of the city. One of my neighbors had nears 10 children, they're very poor and they backyard was a real mess. Two of the children began to develop some bumps on their heads. Not pain, not fever. So they didn't care about it.
Luckily another neighbor was studying medicine in Caracas, she saw one of the children and got interested. She could see the worms inside, they were very developed, not vacuum system, so she used a old treatment. A substance called "Chimó", it's like a chewing paste made of tabacco. She put the Chimó over the little holes and the worms began to go outside and she trapped all of them. I was 14, and got so impressed that I never forgot that.
@adorp
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Does anybody else remember maggot girl?
@andrebraga3839
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Nice another évolution trait that now may affect human what a pleasure, extermination of all flies and mosquito is now a commun goal to humanity
@enarush1
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
I hope he didn’t bring that mess into the United States
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