HHS said the last time NWS was detected in animals or livestock in the United States was in the Florida Keys in 2017.

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

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 ...

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

New World screwworm has re-emerged in Central America and Mexico, raising concerns about human and animal health. Coordinated ...

The first human case of a dangerous, flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in the United States, in someone who recently ...

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

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 ...

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A person in Maryland has been diagnosed with an infection of the flesh-eating New World screwworm. It's the first case in the ...