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 (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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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