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. health authorities have confirmed the country’s first human infection involving the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating ...

The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

On August 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed the first... The post First ...

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

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

The first human case of New World screwworm discovered in Maryland finds experts explaining the risk of an outbreak in humans ...