The New World screwworm, whose larva “screws” into the skin and can infect humans as well as livestock, will be here within four months, experts say Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

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 ...

The first case of a flesh-eating maggot in years has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed with Fast Company on Monday. The maggot, the larva ...

WASHINGTON ( WDCW) – The country’s first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite already wreaking ...

HEAR. BUT THE FIRST CASE OF A FLESH EATING PARASITE HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE U.S. IN MARYLAND, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SAYS THE CASE INVOLVES A PERSON WHO HAD RECENTLY TRAVELED TO ...