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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Ranchers are keeping a closer eye on their animals as the New World Screwworm outbreak inches closer to Texas.

You’ve been hearing quite a bit lately about the New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico and in central America—and the harmful ...

The first case of a New World screwworm infestation in a human was confirmed in the U.S., according to the Department of ...