When flies parasitize

Authors

  • Viviana Leiro Francisco Javier Muñiz Hospital, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47196/da.v29i3.2489

Keywords:

flies, skin

Abstract

The female, sneaky, calculating, goes and lays her eggs in a mosquito. And when the mosquito bites a human being, the eggs hatch and the larvae get under the skin; they grow there for 6 weeks, in our body, inside us. That was Charo, a cannibal fly that got under the skin of our family; other women who fluttered to my husband - my ex-husband - could have been horseflies, or fruit flies, or the fat wood fly. In the long run, harmless. No Charo, Charo was a cannibal, he grew and grew within our marriage until it exploded, coming to light in an attempt to live freely what he had engendered. I didn't use a palmetto, but it solved the issue (Boom!). I'm not asking for approval, just that you understand or at least listen to my version of why I did what I did, and why Charo is, for me, Dermatobia hominis.

Author Biography

Viviana Leiro, Francisco Javier Muñiz Hospital, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Head of the Dermatology Unit

Published

2023-12-01

Issue

Section

The Skin in the Letters