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US screwworm patient recovered, Maryland says, as ranchers criticize secrecy

The patient with the first human infestation of travel-associated New World screwworm in the United States has recovered from ...

Everything you need to know about New World screwworm

Rollins opened an $8.5 million facility in South Texas for releasing sterile New World screwworm flies and introduced a ...

As Texas gears up for a screwworm fight, the first U.S. patient has been identified

The CDC confirmation came about a week and a half before the U.S. agriculture secretary said Texas would host a sterile fly ...

US screwworm patient recovered, Maryland says, as ranchers criticise secrecy

There was no sign of transmission to other people or animals. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

First U.S. case of screwworm detected nearly 50 years after eradicated

The U.S. confirmed its first human diagnosis of the flesh-eating bacteria screwworm since 1982 after its known eradication ...

Human screwworm case reported in the US: Here's what NC residents should know

HHS spokesperson Andrew G. Nixon said the human case reported in the U.S. was related to this outbreak. The case was reported ...

First human screwworm case in US traced to person in Maryland who traveled from Guatemala, sources say

A case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been identified in a person in Maryland who had traveled to the United ...

Exclusive: U.S. confirms nation's first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday reported the first human case in the United States of ...