Flesh-eating parasite resurfaces in US: Maryland confirms first human screwworm case — what makes it so dangerous?

A medical mystery in Maryland has jolted health authorities. A traveler returning from Guatemala was found infected with the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite long thought banished from American soil. According to Reuters, it is the first confirmed human case in the United States since the parasite began creeping north from Central America last […]

What Is the New World Screwworm Fly and why the US has issued a livestock ban at the Mexico border | World News

The United States has taken emergency action to suspend livestock imports from northern Mexico after detecting the alarming spread of the New World Screwworm fly, a parasitic insect that poses a deadly threat to livestock health and the American cattle industry. This insect, which lays eggs in the open wounds of warm-blooded animals, has larvae […]

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