New World screwworm is a fly that lays its eggs in open wounds and body openings. The parasite is typically found in South ...

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 ...

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

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

"This is the first human case of travel-associated New World screwworm myiasis (parasitic infestation of fly larvae) from an ...

WASHINGTON ( WDCW) – The country’s first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite already wreaking ...

Government officials have confirmed the first human case of New World screwworm to be detected in the U.S., sending ...

The Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday the first human case of the flesh-eating parasite, “New World ...

Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story First U.S. screwworm case in years ...

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

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