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

US health officials have confirmed a human case of the deadly cattle screwworm parasite, linked to the recent outbreak in Central America. The patient had recently returned to Maryland from El ...

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 ...

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

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

"The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low," said HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon.

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

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

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