A Moment of Science
During World War 1 soldiers' maggot-infested wounds almost never became infected. What was going on?
Before modern antibiotics, doctors sometimes relied on an unusual, but effective therapy for keeping wounds from getting infected. Yep, you guessed it: maggots.
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