Leeches are very much in use today in the US, in operating rooms especially!
Also, sterilized maggots are used for maggot debridement therapy to clean necrotic tissue from wounds. They don't touch living fresh.
Careful! That depends on the species.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/08/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myiasis#/media/File:Wounds_myi...
(you will never be able to unsee this)
Also, sterilized maggots are used for maggot debridement therapy to clean necrotic tissue from wounds. They don't touch living fresh.
Careful! That depends on the species.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/08/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myiasis#/media/File:Wounds_myi...
(you will never be able to unsee this)