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

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

The overall risk to the public is low, according to the CDC. The larvae do not spread from person to person. People are most ...

A person in Maryland has been diagnosed with an infection of the flesh-eating New World screwworm. It's the first case in the ...

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

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

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

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

A person in the U.S. who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm. Health officials say the ...

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