The Screw Worm

Screw-worm myiasis of prolapsed rectum.

BACKGROUND Wound myiasis in the Indian subcontinent is most commonly caused by old world screw-worm (Chrysomya bezziana). CASE REPORT AND MANAGEMENT A 4-year-old malnourished girl presented with full thickness rectal prolapse following acute diarrhea with a large wound and screwworm myiasis of the rectum. Turpentine oil was applied to immobilize the maggots followed by manual extraction. Prol...

Chemicals for control of the Old World screw-worm fly Chrysomya bezziana in Australia

Worm virulence estimation for the containment of local worm outbreak

A worm-infected host scanning globally may not cause any new infection in its underlying local network before it is detected and quarantined by a worm detector. To defend this type of scanning hosts, a number of worm scanner detection methods such as failed scan detection, honeypot, and dark port detection are proposed. However, for a stealthier worm limiting its scan inside an enterprise netwo...

The Internet Worm Incident

On the cvening of 2 November 1988. someone "inrccLcd" lhe Internet with a worm progrnm. That progrnm exploited flaws in utility progrnms in systems based on BSD-derived versions of UNIX. The flaws allowed lhc program to break into those machines and copy itself. thus infccling those syslems. This program eventually spread to thousands of machines. and disrupted nonnal activities and Inlcrnet co...

Inside the Slammer Worm

Slammer (sometimes called Sapphire) was the fastest computer worm in history. As it began spreading throughout the Internet, the worm infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable hosts within 10 minutes, causing significant disruption to financial, transportation, and government institutions and precluding any human-based response. In this article, we describe how it achieved its rapid growth, d...