Sunset Middle School student Christopher Mares, 11, walks his dairy Holstein commercial heifer through the cattle barn during ...

New World screwworm larva, like the one pictured, will hatch and feed on the flesh of living animals, typically cattle. Cases in humans are rare but can be fatal. (AP | USDA Agricultural Research ...

The first ever human case of this flesh-eating parasite infestation has been detected in the US. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported that the case of infestation by the New ...

Screwworm has been detected in the U.S. for the first time after a human case was confirmed in Maryland. The flesh-eating parasite primarily infests wildlife, and in rare cases, people. Health ...

A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador came home last month with an unwelcome souvenir: larvae of the New World screwworm burrowing in their flesh. The patient has since recovered from the ...

An American has been infested with a flesh-eating parasite in what officials believe is the first documented case-of-its-kind in the US. The parasite, the New World screwworm, eats living flesh and ...

The U.S. has reported its first human case of the flesh-eating parasite called New World screwworm, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The case involves a patient in ...

A flesh-eating parasite has infected a person from the US in a rare and concerning event. The case involved a woman in the state of Maryland, who had recently returned from Central America, where she ...

The U.S. has confirmed its first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite whose northward creep from South America has put the country's cattle industry on high alert in recent ...