The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...

The first human screwworm case in the U.S. has been traced to a person in Maryland who traveled from Guatemala.

The parasite has been a larger concern to ranchers, as cattle infestations have been moving northward through Central America ...

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

A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a ...

The parasite — the larvae of the new world screwworm fly — can devastate cattle herds and is rife in parts of Central America ...

The government’s confirmation of a screwworm case comes just over a week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary ...

Screwworm has not been detected in animals within the U.S., the USDA noted. It was largely eradicated for decades in the U.S.

A person in Maryland was recently infected by the flesh-eating New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador, US health ...

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

U.S. officials confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite in a person who traveled from El Salvador. Screwworm typically ...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite New World screwworm has been detected, according to the Department of ...