The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the diagnosis of a Maryland resident with a travel-associated case of New World screwworm on August 4. via Associated Press A human case of a ...

U.S. health authorities have confirmed the country’s first human infection involving the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. The case was identified on August 4 in Maryland in a patient who ...

The first U.S. human case of infection from the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, was recently detected in Maryland. The New World screwworm is a fly larva that infests the living tissue ...

The United States has confirmed its first human case of infection caused by the New World screwworm. New World screwworm is a flesh-eating parasitic fly that was eradicated from the country decades ...

An outbreak of New World screwworm has been confirmed in Central America and Mexico. The first human case of a flesh-eating parasite infestation has been confirmed in the US, authorities say. New ...

Just two months after reports warily noted that new world screwworms, flesh-eating parasites that are notorious for killing livestock, pets and other animals, hadn’t “made it back into the U.S. yet,” ...

A flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in a human marking the first case in the U.S. According to CNN, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman, Andrew Nixon, said this rare case ...

The United States has reported its first human case of New World screwworm, according to its Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The flesh-eating parasite usually eats cattle and other warm ...

The US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) confirmed the country’s first human case of a flesh-eating parasite. The New World Screwworm (NWS), a species of parasitic fly, burrows into the ...

A person in Maryland was recently infected by the flesh-eating New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador, US health officials confirmed this week. The blowflies primarily affect livestock — ...