The doctor eventually told me about the tumbu fly…” read her post. The Standard Explainer desk decided to check the claim that maggots can live in a human who is alive.

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A mother in Virginia sued a funeral home after she said her son's body was infested with maggots during his viewing.

A Virginia funeral home faces a $5M lawsuit after a grieving mother found maggots in her son’s body during a viewing.

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