The New World screwworm outbreak has emerged as a serious transboundary agricultural and economic threat, placing livestock ...

A New World screwworm larvae. Health correspondent The U.S. has confirmed a rare human case of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that typically infects livestock but can be deadly to people ...

In 2025, the United States faced a series of reminders that the security of our food supply depends on public health systems that are largely invisible to the general population. Poultry and dairy ...

The first human screwworm case in the United States has been traced to a person in Maryland, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC and Maryland Department of Health ...

A human case of the flesh-eating New World Screwworm has been found in the United States in a person who traveled to El Salvador. The parasitic insect is actually a fly that looks similar to a ...

(NEXSTAR) – Doctors are being put on alert as a dangerous and potentially deadly parasite, the New World screwworm, inches its way closer to the U.S. The screwworm has moved into the Mexican state of ...

The first human case of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite called “new world screwworm” has been detected in the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. According to ...

The U.S. has confirmed its first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite whose northward creep from South America has put the country's cattle industry on high alert in recent ...

OVERTON – Ranchers wearing cowboy hats and baseball caps filled the auditorium earlier this month at the Texas A&M AgriLife office in Overton. On the screen at the front of the auditorium were massive ...

McALLEN — The federal government is ramping up efforts in Texas to combat the spread of New World Screwworm, a pest that could devastate the cattle and wildlife industries in Texas and the nation. The ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching their way closer to the Texas-Mexico border and officials have now identified the first U.S. patient, according to the federal government. The Centers for Disease ...