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

Federal officials confirmed a human case of New World screwworm on Tuesday and said the government will be monitoring ...

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

A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm—the first reported U.S. case tied ...

The first U.S. human case of infection from the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, was recently detected in ...

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

Screwworms are flesh-eating parasites that hatch in open wounds and burrow into skin. Left untreated, they can be deadly. The majority of cases are in livestock. A Maryland reside ...

HHS said the last time NWS was detected in animals or livestock in the United States was in the Florida Keys in 2017.

An American who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm, marking the first known case of the ...

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

The US last officially reported an endemic infection in 1982. While travelers returning to the country have sometimes brought ...