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U.S. health authorities have confirmed the country’s first human infection involving the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. The case was identified on August 4 in Maryland in a patient who ...

The first U.S. human case of infection from the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, was recently detected in Maryland. The New World screwworm is a fly larva that infests the living tissue ...

(CNN) — A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesperson from the US Department of Health and Human Services said ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ravaging livestock. By Alexa Robles-Gil In early August, a case of myiasis, an ...

A person in the US has become infected with the larvae of the New World screwworm fly, according to a report by the US Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday. The New World screwworm was ...

WASHINGTON (WDCW) – The country’s first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite already wreaking havoc on cattle and driving up beef prices, has been reported in Maryland, ...

Screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) larvae use their sharp mandibles to dig into and eat away the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, including humans. Just two months after reports warily ...

A person in Maryland was recently infected by the flesh-eating New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador, US health officials confirmed this week. The blowflies primarily affect livestock — ...