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 Medical myiasis is the condition in which fly larvae infest living tissue. Sometimes, as in the case of maggot therapy (using fly maggots to clean wounds), this is deliberate and beneficial. Often, however, the infestation is accidental. Accidental myiasis can occur by ingestion of fly eggs (intestinal myiasis, usually in children) or when open wounds are left unbandaged on incapacitated patients. The wounds attract certain fly species which lay eggs in the wounds. While the myiasis may not always be medically harmful, it sure provokes a strong reaction, and sometimes lawsuits, from those involved.
Product liability cases involving both powderpost beetles and siricid wood wasps, or horntail wood wasps, are common as well. Both insects have larval stages that bore into and damage wood. In both insects the larval period can be sufficiently long that larvae, that began their develop in the forest or sawmill, may emerge once the wood has been built into a home. When these insects finally emerge as adults the damage they do can generate a lawsuit. The primary question often comes down to when did the initial infestation occur and, therefore, who is responsible for the damage. Other examples of insects in civil liability lawsuits often involve some type of food product contamination from stored product pests.
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