The adult screwworm is actually a fly, but it’s most dangerous in its larval stage. Flies lay their eggs in the fresh wounds or orifices of warm-blooded animals — it mostly affects livestock but can ...

The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. Here's what ...

A deadly parasite has been discovered in the US for the first time. The flesh-eating screwworm eats cattle and other warm-blooded animals alive, with an outbreak beginning in Central America and ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently identified an ...

The first human case of a flesh-eating parasite has been identified in Maryland, involving a traveler from El Salvador.

The human case of screwworm reported this week by U.S. health officials is the country's only case so far this year and poses ...

The first human case of a dangerous, flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in the United States, in someone who recently ...

All of this is at risk because of the New World screwworm. Working with Secretary Rollins and members of the agricultural ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ...

The patient recently traveled to El Salvador, where cattle farmers have been battling the “man-eater” maggots for the past ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm — the first ...