Maggots

The technical term for maggot therapy is…

• medicinal maggots

• medical larvae

• maggot debridement

• larvae therapy

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

During maggot therapy, the maggots actually eat what type of cells?

• dead cells

• living cells

• damaged cells

• cancerous cells

The earliest use of maggot therapy mentioned in the article was by ________.

• Confederate soldiers

• children's hospitals

• Napolean

• the Mayans

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Many of the earliest documents uses of maggot therapy were during _________.

• wartime

• the middle ages

• WWI and WWII

• the Renaissance

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Maggot infestation of human being or animal typically happens ______.

• anytime the person or animal is outside for a long period of time

• on a dead body

• to a person with diabetes

• all of these

Resistance to ____________ is one of the

biggest global health threats today.

• maggot therapy

• dead tissue

• antibiotics

• disease

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CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What is the role of a maggot when used

for therapy?

• eat the dead tissue

• killb bacteria

• facilitate healing

• all of these

Maggot therapy can be used to treat

which of the following?

• sickle cell

• frostbite

• internal organ damage

• all of these