Medical facilities in Arusha are at the best down right awful and was not going to subject my son to “Tank ya Maji or Mohammed’s” queues and thus turned to the T.U.R.D’s (The Usa River Dames - women far wiser, and greyer, than I and am eternally grateful to Cathie, Aideen & Lizzie for their support, squeezing techniques and knowledge of all applicable drugs (unfortunately the legal ones.) The relevant websites fine for really big people but I couldn’t pronounce, let alone spell half of what was written about the condition, or more importantly how to treat and prevent it. My 8 month old son was one such accidental host and I spent ages reading up on the web about Mango fly and was so disappointed with all that I could find that I decided to write this blog in the hope that it would prove useful to other people. The condition is known as cutaneous myiasis.ĭogs & rodents are usually the hosts, but humans often become accidental hosts.
They are a member of the blow fly family (Cordylobia Anthropophaga) and the flies in this family are often metallic in appearance and between 10 to 12 mm in length - aka “Blue Bottles “ or “Bog Flies”.
Mango flies, or myiatic flies, are also known Putzi Fly or Tumbu Fly all depending on which side of the Ruvuma you reside on.
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