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The parasite has been a larger concern to ranchers, as cattle infestations have been moving northward through Central America ...
New World screwworm detections in Mexico during 2024 prompted U.S. officials to tighten animal checks at the border and to ...
Rollins opened an $8.5 million facility in South Texas for releasing sterile New World screwworm flies and introduced a ...
When Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said on Aug. 15 that the New World screwworm had not been reported or detected in the United States “in ...
A person in Maryland was recently infected by the flesh-eating New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador, US health ...
The first human screwworm case in the U.S. has been traced to a person in Maryland who traveled from Guatemala.
The patient with the first human infestation of travel-associated New World screwworm in the United States has recovered from ...
Government officials have confirmed the first human case of New World screwworm to be detected in the U.S., sending ...
The first reported case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human was confirmed by the U.S Department of Health and Human ...
“This is the first human case of travel-associated New World screwworm myiasis (parasitic infestation of fly larvae) from an ...
The first case in years of New World screwworm infesting a human has been detected in the U.S. The infestation was detected ...
U.S. officials confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite in a person who traveled from El Salvador. Screwworm typically ...