Watch This Terrifying Video Of A Maggot Being Born In Human Skin
Warning: Don't watch this at work, unless you want everyone to think you're a freak.
Meet the bot fly of South America.

These little guys lay their eggs on other parasites like mosquitos. When a mosquito bites a mammal, like a human, the eggs hatch and the human bot fly larvae burrows underneath its skin until its fully grown, according to Harvard entomologist Piotr Naskręcki’s blog.
But there’s good news. Most of the time, the parasite is harmless. It's just really, really gross.
Watch the entire video if you dare.
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