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Do you love maggots? Kalro farms them for treatment of bad wounds

Sterilised fly larvae feed on dead tissue and harmful bacteria, cleaning and healing chronic wounds.

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by KNA

Counties07 March 2025 - 15:16
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Paul Ngare, a technologist at Biotechnology Research Institute, Kalro Muguga station / KNA



The Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization is involved in the production of maggots for clinical therapy, a method of treating non-healing or infected wounds.

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