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

New World screwworm is a fly that lays its eggs in open wounds and body openings. View on euronews ...

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 ...

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.

Experts break down how concerned you should be about human cases of infestations — which the CDC describes as "very painful." ...

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 ...

The first case in years of New World screwworm infesting a human has been detected in the U.S. The infestation was detected ...