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

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

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

STORY: The U.S. has confirmed the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm. It involved ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...

The patient with the first human infestation of travel-associated New World screwworm in the United States has recovered from ...

A Maryland resident was diagnosed after traveling to El Salvador, where an outbreak of the flesh-eating parasite is ongoing. Officials say the risk to the public is very low.

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