New World Screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, is traveling north from Central ...

The U.S. typically imports over a million cattle from Mexico every year. The import suspension will likely contribute to ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the restrictions on livestock imports due to the troubling northward spread of ...

Mexico's New World Screwworm outbreak halts livestock imports at the southern border as US officials work to prevent the parasitic fly from spreading to American animals.

The New World Screwworm (NWS, Cochliomyia hominivorax) is a parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere. It lays eggs in ...

While the fly larvae in the open wound is disturbing enough, the infection they cause is even more so. The flies cause myiasis, an infection of flesh-eating maggots that burrow into the skin of ...

To say the New World Screwworm is a nasty parasite would be an understatement. The flesh-eating scourge that tortures cattle ...

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

Live maggots outperform traditional surgery in healing chronic wounds. Medical maggot therapy shows faster recovery times and ...

A female fly lays eggs in a wound or orifice of a live, warm-blooded animal. The eggs then hatch into larvae (maggots) that burrow into the flesh, causing potentially deadly damage. Screwworms are ...