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. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced Friday, Aug. 15, that the largest initiative yet in the USDA plan ...

The New World screwworm, a fly that lays flesh-eating larvae, is making its way northward through Mexico, heightening concern ...

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden says the Trump administration is looking at providing some kind of emergency assistance to producers to serve as a “bridge” until they get commodity program ...

The overall risk to the public is low, according to the CDC. The larvae do not spread from person to person. People are most at risk if they travel to areas with animal infestations, spend time around ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently identified an instance of a traveler-associated human case of New World ...

Add the New World Screwworm to the list of unsettling pathogens that have sickened Americans this summer. Here's the others ...

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A human case of New World screwworm was reported by the Centers for Disease Control after being discovered earlier this month (Aug. 2025) in a person from Maryland who had recently returned from ...

Just when you thought there was enough going on in the world to frazzle your nerves, along comes a flesh-eating parasite that ...

Postal services around the world have begun to halt some shipments to the U.S. as a customs exemption on small packages is ...