The government's confirmation of a screwworm case comes just over a week after U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary ...

A human case of a flesh-eating parasite known as New World screwworm has been confirmed in a Maryland resident, the first in ...

The first human screwworm case in the U.S. has been traced to a person in Maryland who traveled from Guatemala.

The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...

Health officials confirm that a Maryland resident was diagnosed with New World screwworm earlier this month after traveling ...

The parasite — the larvae of the new world screwworm fly — can devastate cattle herds and is rife in parts of Central America ...

A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a ...

The person, who received treatment in Maryland, is the first confirmed case in the U.S. of New World screwworm, a parasite ...

The parasite has been a larger concern to ranchers, as cattle infestations have been moving northward through Central America ...

Reuters said the travel-related case was in Maryland and that the person infected had returned there from El Salvador.

“This is the first human case of travel-associated New World screwworm myiasis (parasitic infestation of fly larvae) from an ...