U.S. health authorities have confirmed the country’s first human infection involving the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating ...

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 ...

The pest, which typically affects livestock, feasts on healthy tissue and can be deadly if not promptly treated.

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

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

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

Reuters said the travel-related case was in Maryland and that the person infected had returned there from El Salvador.

The Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed the first human case of New World screwworm myiasis in the United ...

Officials released more information on the first human case of screw worms as officials work to take action against the spread of the parasite.

Reuters was first to report the case early Monday, quoting Andrew Nixon, spokesperson for the US Department of Health and ...

There’s an invasive species now found in Washington state: the hammerhead flatworm. They are land-dwelling and they can grow up to 22 inches long. They kill earthworms necessary for everything from ...