August 27, 2025 • 5 mins
“Is it still considered medicine if it involves maggots eating your flesh?”In this hilariously horrifying edition of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray — dive into the most bizarre and unsettling story of the week: the confirmed U.S. case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite. It’s real & and it’s disgusting.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
He gets update featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Let's go out to NBC five and their handsome anchor
Brian Curtis with a story that should terrify you.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The first human case of the flesh eating screwworm parasite
has been confirmed in the US. Federal health officials say
the risk of the public is low, but concerns are
growing in Texas. NBC five Sophia Bosole has the update.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
All right, how'd you think Brian did in those first
fifteen seconds?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Passing passing grade?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
The disrespect? I thought that was the proper urgency in tone.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Yeah, he scared us. And then he's like, well but.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Let its low.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, and then he had a tough name to pronounce
to hand off to the lady actually doing the story.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
NBC five Sophia Bosole has the update.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
This is the new world screwworm.
Speaker 7 (00:57):
It feeds off living flesh of warm blooded animals. It
spreads its eggs and wounds, and the larva or maggots
burrow their way down and eat away.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Stop she's weirding me out.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's a weird story.
Speaker 8 (01:09):
It's a weird story, but she's saying it in a
weird way to me. Well, word, all of it was
maggot bothering you, just the whole thing, open wound larva. Yeah,
I think her her mouth is overly moist during these pronunciations.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Let's hear it again.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
This is the new world screwworm.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
It feeds off living flesh of warm blooded animals. It
spreads its eggs and wounds, and the larva or maggots
burrow their way down and eat away.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's it's a real nasty infection, not as as bad
as anything you can imagine being eaten alive by maggot.
That's what.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Okay, Hi, guys wearing a cowboy hat and he's out
in the wilderness, and uh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
He didn't sing like the most trustworthy guy.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
But why, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
There's something about it. You don't trust country dudes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I do, but there's just something about like if you
can't do better than to just he's doing it over
his phone.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
But dude, you're on TV. Let's let's go ahead and
do something on the back. I'll just go outside. I
thought he wasn't even looking at the camera. I thought
he was browsing at some stuff at the Cracker Barrel
gift shop after eating a giant chicken fried steak and
pancakes at nine am.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Do you want him to drive two hours to the
studio somewhere? What do you want him to do?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, that guy's super Bowl is beating his grandkids in
checkers outside of the Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
By the way, rocket chair.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
The Peg game at Cracker Barrel's an old time classic. Yeah,
it's great. Do you like the peg game?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I don't think you should be playing that Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
They offer it competitive pegging. It's incredible. Man, you got
the triangle called.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Is it called the peg game for real?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I think so? What else would it be called?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I don't think that's what it's called.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I think it's the peg game, and I love it.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
I'm gonna stop buying Cracker Barrel and play it while
I wait for my food.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'll tell you what would In that Jerry documenty, there's
a clip of Married with Children and I about completely
different Peggy Bunny what she was doing to Al.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
I think we used to go to Cracker Barrel like
on road trips with Friedo. Liked it right, exactly like
I think we've been there on media. Yeah, Frido loved
the PEG game rested yees big time. Listen to this
guy's terrifying talk about this again.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
There's more.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, it's it's a real nasty infection, not as as
bad as anything you can imagine. Being eaten alive by
maggot is what it is.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
It's not in Texas, but the Agriculture Department says the
closest known case is three hundred and seventy.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Miles south of Mexico.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
On Monday, the CDC confirmed the human case was detected
in the US and Maryland after someone traveled back from
El Salvador, and the.
Speaker 10 (03:33):
Person probably didn't realize it until they returned to the
US and had a wound that probably started to smell
and realized that there was something in there movingstrsys.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
In a human case, once the larvae is removed in
the area is treated, a person should make a full recovery,
but it needs to be cauterally.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
We got that last thing in there just okay.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
In a lot of old school movie, especially back in
like sword fighting days, right, if somebody had a big cut,
didn't they just put maggots on the cut to eat the.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Germs have I thought it was leeches, right.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
I think leeches? Yeah, is a leech from maggot? I
think a maggot is a fly egg?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Oh they're like those little tiny white bugs that are disgusting.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yes, it's called maggot. De bridement goes back centuries, formerly
documented in the eighteen hundreds, and was widely used in
the battlefield during World War One. Surgeons noticed that soldiers
whose wounds had maggots often healed better than those without them.
(04:45):
Do you realize, hold on, that was a little over
one hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
A little over one hundred years ago they were blowing
each other's arms off in the battlefield and using maggots
for medicine, sherives. How rate it is to have lived
in the era that we lived in. I realize, hey,
I was going to ruin everything, but we did not
have to live in a time period where if you
got a flesh wound, a doctor suggested, let's throw some
maggots on there and see how it works out.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I thought, Jerry and Jimmy's ego is out of control,
the god and the war back then, right, we'll do
whatever yeah, all right, there you have it.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
There's a weekly weekday update.
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
He gets update featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Let's go out to NBC five and their handsome anchor
Brian Curtis with a story that should terrify you.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The first human case of the flesh eating screwworm parasite
has been confirmed in the US. Federal health officials say
the risk of the public is low, but concerns are
growing in Texas. NBC five Sophia Bosole has the update.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
All right, how'd you think Brian did in those first
fifteen seconds?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Passing passing grade?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
The disrespect? I thought that was the proper urgency in tone.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Yeah, he scared us. And then he's like, well but.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Let its low.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, and then he had a tough name to pronounce
to hand off to the lady actually doing the story.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
NBC five Sophia Bosole has the update.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
This is the new world screwworm.
Speaker 7 (00:57):
It feeds off living flesh of warm blooded animals. It
spreads its eggs and wounds, and the larva or maggots
burrow their way down and eat away.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Stop she's weirding me out.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's a weird story.
Speaker 8 (01:09):
It's a weird story, but she's saying it in a
weird way to me. Well, word, all of it was
maggot bothering you, just the whole thing, open wound larva. Yeah,
I think her her mouth is overly moist during these pronunciations.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Let's hear it again.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
This is the new world screwworm.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
It feeds off living flesh of warm blooded animals. It
spreads its eggs and wounds, and the larva or maggots
burrow their way down and eat away.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's it's a real nasty infection, not as as bad
as anything you can imagine being eaten alive by maggot.
That's what.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Okay, Hi, guys wearing a cowboy hat and he's out
in the wilderness, and uh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
He didn't sing like the most trustworthy guy.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
But why, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
There's something about it. You don't trust country dudes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I do, but there's just something about like if you
can't do better than to just he's doing it over
his phone.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
But dude, you're on TV. Let's let's go ahead and
do something on the back. I'll just go outside. I
thought he wasn't even looking at the camera. I thought
he was browsing at some stuff at the Cracker Barrel
gift shop after eating a giant chicken fried steak and
pancakes at nine am.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Do you want him to drive two hours to the
studio somewhere? What do you want him to do?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, that guy's super Bowl is beating his grandkids in
checkers outside of the Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
By the way, rocket chair.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
The Peg game at Cracker Barrel's an old time classic. Yeah,
it's great. Do you like the peg game?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I don't think you should be playing that Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
They offer it competitive pegging. It's incredible. Man, you got
the triangle called.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Is it called the peg game for real?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I think so? What else would it be called?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I don't think that's what it's called.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I think it's the peg game, and I love it.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
I'm gonna stop buying Cracker Barrel and play it while
I wait for my food.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'll tell you what would In that Jerry documenty, there's
a clip of Married with Children and I about completely
different Peggy Bunny what she was doing to Al.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
I think we used to go to Cracker Barrel like
on road trips with Friedo. Liked it right, exactly like
I think we've been there on media. Yeah, Frido loved
the PEG game rested yees big time. Listen to this
guy's terrifying talk about this again.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
There's more.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, it's it's a real nasty infection, not as as
bad as anything you can imagine. Being eaten alive by
maggot is what it is.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
It's not in Texas, but the Agriculture Department says the
closest known case is three hundred and seventy.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Miles south of Mexico.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
On Monday, the CDC confirmed the human case was detected
in the US and Maryland after someone traveled back from
El Salvador, and the.
Speaker 10 (03:33):
Person probably didn't realize it until they returned to the
US and had a wound that probably started to smell
and realized that there was something in there movingstrsys.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
In a human case, once the larvae is removed in
the area is treated, a person should make a full recovery,
but it needs to be cauterally.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
We got that last thing in there just okay.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
In a lot of old school movie, especially back in
like sword fighting days, right, if somebody had a big cut,
didn't they just put maggots on the cut to eat the.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Germs have I thought it was leeches, right.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
I think leeches? Yeah, is a leech from maggot? I
think a maggot is a fly egg?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Oh they're like those little tiny white bugs that are disgusting.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yes, it's called maggot. De bridement goes back centuries, formerly
documented in the eighteen hundreds, and was widely used in
the battlefield during World War One. Surgeons noticed that soldiers
whose wounds had maggots often healed better than those without them.
(04:45):
Do you realize, hold on, that was a little over
one hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
A little over one hundred years ago they were blowing
each other's arms off in the battlefield and using maggots
for medicine, sherives. How rate it is to have lived
in the era that we lived in. I realize, hey,
I was going to ruin everything, but we did not
have to live in a time period where if you
got a flesh wound, a doctor suggested, let's throw some
maggots on there and see how it works out.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I thought, Jerry and Jimmy's ego is out of control,
the god and the war back then, right, we'll do
whatever yeah, all right, there you have it.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
There's a weekly weekday update.
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