The pest, which typically affects livestock, feasts on healthy tissue and can be deadly if not promptly treated.

The adult screwworm is actually a fly, but it’s most dangerous in its larval stage. Flies lay their eggs in the fresh wounds or orifices of warm-blooded animals — it mostly affects livestock but can ...

The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. Here's what ...

Parasitic blowflies, which feed on the flesh of warm-blooded animals. Dr. Heather Walden of the University of Florida College ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently identified an ...

The first-ever American to be infected with the “horrific” flesh-eating parasite contracted it while traveling ...

The first human case of a flesh-eating parasite has been identified in Maryland, involving a traveler from El Salvador.

The human case of screwworm reported this week by U.S. health officials is the country's only case so far this year and poses ...

All of this is at risk because of the New World screwworm. Working with Secretary Rollins and members of the agricultural ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ...

The nearly three-week delay between the confirmation of the case on Aug. 4 and the U.S. government’s disclosure erodes trust ...

The patient recently traveled to El Salvador, where cattle farmers have been battling the “man-eater” maggots for the past ...