A patient in Maryland, United States (US), has died from an infection of maggots, or maggot larvae, from the New World ...

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

Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed the first human case of 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 ...

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 ...

Health officials in the U.S. are worried that New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that typically feeds off livestock ...

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

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