The United States eradicated New World screwworms, a blue-grey blowfly, in the 1960s. These parasites can cause infestations in warm-blooded animals, and, rarely, humans, which can be extremely ...

A United States resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm – the country’s first ...

New World screwworm detections in Mexico during 2024 prompted U.S. officials to tighten animal checks at the border and to ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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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