How do bugs and worms get into dead bodies?

Subject: How do bugs and worms get into dead bodies?

Date: Wed Mar 26 20:01:46 1997
Posted by: madeline sellers
Grade level: other
School/Organization: n/a
City: Portland State/Province: or
Country: usa
Area of science: Microbiology
Message ID: 859428106.Mi

Message:

How do bugs and worms get into dead bodies?
I have heard that even when dead bodies are sealed in coffins where
nothing can get in, bugs and worms will come out of the body.  Where
do they come from?  How do they get into the body?

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