The CDC confirmation came about a week and a half before the U.S. agriculture secretary said Texas would host a sterile fly ...

The U.S. confirmed its first human diagnosis of the flesh-eating bacteria screwworm since 1982 after its known eradication ...

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

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

The USDA estimates that the screwworm fly parasite could cause at least $1.8 billion in economic damages to Texas ...

Screwworm has not been detected in animals within the U.S., the USDA noted. It was largely eradicated for decades in the U.S.

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

The nearly three-week delay between the confirmation of the case on August 4 and the U.S. government's disclosure erodes ...

A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a ...

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

First human case of a deadly flesh-eating parasite detected in US. Here's what to know about new world screwworm, what it ...