In June 2022, a video of a large fly went viral on social media. Why? Why did millions of people watch and share this video of a fly? Well, because the viral version of the video was accompanied by a ...

Here it is again, cuterebra (cute-a-ree-bra) season. This is the time of year when my personal favorite clinical entity rears its not-so-cute little head on dogs and cats and rabbits around town.The ...

In last week's column we discussed reasons you might want to keep your cat strictly indoors. Well, here is another one: the Cuterebra botfly. Cuterebra is a type of botfly that lays its eggs around ...

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