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The New World screwworm case is the first reported U.S. case​ tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak.
The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ...
The first-ever American to be infected with the “horrific” flesh-eating parasite contracted it while traveling ...
Reuters said the travel-related case was in Maryland and that the person infected had returned there from El Salvador.
The USDA has not detected screwworm in livestock or other animals since 2017. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...
The first U.S. human case of infection from the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, was recently detected in ...
The first screwworm human case in Maryland was reported. Trump’s decision to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is a ...
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New World screwworm case in Maryland

Parasitic blowflies, which feed on the flesh of warm-blooded animals. Dr. Heather Walden of the University of Florida College ...
Screwworms can be devastating in cattle and wildlife, and rarely infest humans, though an infestation in either an animal or ...
A rare human case of a flesh-eating parasite known as New World screwworm has been confirmed in a Maryland resident as the ...
The first human case of a flesh-eating parasite has been identified in Maryland, involving a traveler from El Salvador.
The patient with the first human infestation of travel-associated New World screwworm in the United States has recovered from ...