The lawsuit states, “As mourners approached the body of Torreon Williams, these people noticed that Torreon Williams’ body, particularly his face, nose and mouth, was covered with and consumed by ...

A mother in Virginia sued a funeral home after she said her son's body was infested with maggots during his viewing.

Tabitha Worrell is suing a Virginia funeral home after her son's body was "covered with and consumed by clumps of maggots" during a viewing.

New World screwworm flies cause myiasis, an infection of flesh-eating maggots that burrow into the skin of living animals, causing serious and often fatal damage, Reuters reported. The fly is named ...

By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

The flesh-eating parasite was thought to have been eradicated but has made a gruesome comeback, devouring one woman's lungs ...

District Council 33 was on strike for nearly three weeks in 1986. The trash on Philadelphia streets a few days into the ...

The flies will be blasted with radiation before they are released into the skies of Texas and Mexico to combat the screwworm outbreak ...

The USDA partners with Mexico to create a buffer zone south of the border, releasing the sterile flies in coordination to ...

The lawsuit reads: "The maggots had been on and in Torreon Williams’ body for a significant period of time and had been purposely ignored on the day of Torreon Williams' service as, in addition to the ...

The maggots feast on the flesh and blood of their host with tiny mouth hooks. Left untreated, the parasitic infection can kill a full-grown cow within one to two weeks.