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 ...

Female flies lay eggs in an open wound or in the nose, eyes, or mouth of an animal or person, which quickly grow into larvae that eat the flesh. The screwworm part of the name comes from those maggots ...

A Kansas health alert from KDHE warns local health departments and providers of the human risk from New World screwworm and ...

Ranchers and health officials in some Southern states are concerned over the rising rates of screwworm infections outside the U.S.

A human case of a flesh-eating parasite, called New World screwworm, was reported in the U.S. this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Sunday.  The case involved a patient ...

Concerns over a flesh-eating parasite have led U.S. officials to halt all imports of live cattle, horses and bison across the Southern border. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made the decision on ...

A case of potentially deadly flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been detected in a person in the US for the first time in years, the US Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Sunday.

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