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

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

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

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

The New World screwworm case is the first reported U.S. case​ tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak.

A rare human case of a flesh-eating parasite known as New World screwworm has been confirmed in a Maryland resident as the ...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite, New World Screwworm, has been detected in the United States.

A person in Maryland was recently infected by the flesh-eating New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador, US health ...

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

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 ...