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A PLACE FOR BRITTANY
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Brittany McCann brought up the rear of the tour at Echostar. Her
motorized wheelchair zipped around cubicles where employees spoke
into headphones and televisions flashed overhead.
Brittany was on a field trip with Montgomery County Public Schools
to show disabled students jobs to consider after graduation.
Some pondered working for the satellite dish company and call
center. The $8.50 an hour pay. The benefits.
Brittany didn't bother. She'd have to pass a timed typing test,
but she doesn't have the required finger dexterity.
The senior at Christiansburg High School has severe cerebral palsy ...
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Botfly ectoparasitism of the Brown Cacholote and the Firewood-gatherer.
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin
; ...b, Mason 1985). Botfly parasitism has been documented...methods. - I studied botflies in Monte Cristo (31...determine the presence of botfly larvae. Adult and nestlings...5). Both species of botflies simultaneously occurred...In both species, the botfly larvae infested most...
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Human scrotal myiasis: botfly infestation. (Case Study).
Magazine article from: Urologic Nursing
; ...Cutaneous infestation of the scrotum with botfly larva from the order Dioptera, family...increased potential for human infestation with botfly larva (Dermatobia hominis), due to...tropical areas for exotic vacations where the botfly is endemic. Urology nurses in a clinical...
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Botfly Infestation (Dermatobia hominis).
Magazine article from: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; ...Diptera species, which include the human botfly (Dermatobia hominis). These flies are...travel to an endemic area. The female botfly attaches her eggs to the abdomen of a...and tearing host tissues on which the botfly larva feeds (Figure 2). Larvae anchor...
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Myiasis secondary to dermatobia hominis (human botfly) presenting as a long-standing breast mass
Magazine article from: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; ...fly larva, Dermatobia hominis (human botfly). The incidence of myiasis, infestation...or food.7 Dermatobia hominis (human botfly) is an obligate Diptera that needs to...this was the larva of D hominis (human botfly) and represented myiasis. The structures...
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La 'mosca' de Tele 5 y el moscón de Ducruet. (comentario sobre personalidades de la televisión Española, incluyendo a Daniel Ducruet)(TT: Tele 5's fly and Ducruet's botfly) (TA: commentaries on Spanish TV personalities, including Daniel Ducruet)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad
; Daniel Ducruet, ex marido de la princesa Estefana de Mnaco, fue la estrella invitada y pagada por la firma catalana Liberto para promocionar un campeonato de snowboard en Baqueira Beret. Mientras el moscn se ofertaba por un milln y medio de pesetas, Tele 5 organizaba un festejo en Madrid para
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Furuncular myiasis secondary to Dermatobia hominis.(CASE REPORTS)
Magazine article from: Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
; ...infestation with Dermatobia hominis (human botfly). (1) It is associated with a history...anthropophaga (tumbu fly) or D. hominis (human botfly). (1) These organisms represent developing...transport the eggs. (5,8) The human botfly attaches her eggs to mosquitos, which...
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Imported furuncular myiasis in Germany
Magazine article from: Military Medicine
; ...hominis (human botfly, torsalo, or berne...rabbit and rodent botflies) are also rarely...imported" human botfly (D. hominis...cycles of human botflies and key aspects...hominis (human botfly, torsalo, or berne...rabbit and rodent botflies) are known to cause...
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Beauty and the wildebeeste
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...honored question: "Did you know that the botfly causes madness in wildebeeste?" It...with you, dear readers. This is the botfly's tale. First it flies from beeste...and snorting down its nose to shoo the botfly away. But sooner or later the botfly...
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Playing Superman or Frankenstein?(News)
Newspaper article from: The Star (South Africa)
; ...same method that destroyed some botfly populations. Botflies are like normal flies, but they...deeper and deeper into the flesh. Botflies have sex only once in their lives...by breeding a large number of botflies and separating them at the larval...
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Bacon therapy to the rescue New twist on an old remedy gets the larvae out
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...little tunnels containing larvae of the botfly, a common tropical pest. Infestation occurs when mosquitos that carry botfly eggs bite humans or animals and leave...in Central America it is common for botfly victims to cover their lesions with...
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