State health officials have issued a health advisory warning about a rare and previously eradicated parasite that can burrow ...

California health officials warn that the New World Screwworm could arrive in California from an infested traveler or animal, ...

The U.S. has blocked imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through southern border ports following the resurgence in Mexico of the New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly that infects animals and ...

Kansas public health officials are advising providers to be on the lookout for humans infected with flesh-eating maggots of the New World screwworm. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

The New World screwworm is a flesh-eating parasite that lays eggs in open wounds. It can be devastating to livestock and, in rare cases, humans. The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite New ...