Flesh-eating flies are eating their way through Mexico, CDC warns

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert to clinicians Tuesday, warning that the savage, flesh ...

‘Devastating’ parasitic screwworm that can lay eggs on people creeps closer to US

The New World screwworm is getting dangerously close to the U.S., public health officials warn. If left untreated, a ...
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5 squirming fly larvae pulled from Colorado man’s head after trip to Central America

CARBONDALE, Colo. — Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas' head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving. A doctor found five active bot fly larvae ...
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Worried about that huge group of tiny bugs on your wall? It's a chinch

Crane flies are so last month. False chinch bugs are the latest insect craze to land in Tucson. An explosion of the harmless, weed-loving bugs is now underway across Southern Arizona. And University ...