A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesman from the US Department of Health and Human Services said.

The first travel-related human case of a flesh-eating parasite was detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Sunday. A Maryland resident contracted the New World screwworm after returning home from El Salvador,

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite, New World Screwworm, has been detected in the United States.