The New World screwworm outbreak has emerged as a serious transboundary agricultural and economic threat, placing livestock ...

In 2025, the United States faced a series of reminders that the security of our food supply depends on public health systems that are largely invisible to the general population. Poultry and dairy ...

A New World screwworm larvae. Health correspondent The U.S. has confirmed a rare human case of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that typically infects livestock but can be deadly to people ...

The first human screwworm case in the United States has been traced to a person in Maryland, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC and Maryland Department of Health ...

(NEXSTAR) – Doctors are being put on alert as a dangerous and potentially deadly parasite, the New World screwworm, inches its way closer to the U.S. The screwworm has moved into the Mexican state of ...

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 ...

OVERTON – Ranchers wearing cowboy hats and baseball caps filled the auditorium earlier this month at the Texas A&M AgriLife office in Overton. On the screen at the front of the auditorium were massive ...

The first human case of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite called “new world screwworm” has been detected in the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. According to ...

The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping toward the Texas-Mexico border. By Pooja Salhotra Reporting from Austin, Texas ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching their way closer to the Texas-Mexico border and officials have now identified the first U.S. patient, according to the federal government. The Centers for Disease ...

McALLEN — As Mexican officials battle the spread of New World Screwworm, Texas officials are still working to finalize a response plan that would be enacted should the parasitic fly spread into the ...