A parasitic fly whose maggots can infest living livestock, birds, pets and humans, could threaten California soon. The New World Screwworm has rapidly spread northward from Panama since 2023 and ...

Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, ...

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 ...

A West Babylon woman was charged with animal cruelty for allegedly neglecting her dog. Suffolk SPCA detectives say Bunnie Smith was arrested after bringing her dog Diamond to the vet. They say Diamond ...

Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. The patient, a Maryland resident, had recently returned from ...

GUARANTEES AND HOW TO GET THE U.S. MORE INVOLVED. A DANGEROUS PARASITE CALLED SCREWWORM HAS SHOWN UP IN A HUMAN HERE IN THE U.S., KOAT U-N-M HEALTH EXPERT DOCTOR ASH TOLD OUR OWN DARLENE MELENDEZ THAT ...

WASHINGTON (WDCW) – The country’s first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite already wreaking havoc on cattle and driving up beef prices, has been reported in Maryland, ...

"By the 1990s they had actually driven the population all the way south of Panama, unfortunately in 2023, the flies escaped ...

The FDA has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for an animal drug to treat cats and kittens infected with the parasite New World screwworm (NWS). The majority of cats in the U.S. are at low ...

In the 1940s and 50s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the flesh-eating maggots from infested wounds — eyes, noses, umbilicus — and then ...