Health officials are warning of a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on living tissue and can infest humans. The larvae feed on healthy tissue, according to health experts. New World Screwworm was ...

A parasitic fly known as the New World Screwworm has been located 400 miles from the U.S. border causing a major uproar in the agriculture industry. The maggots from the fly infest and eat the flesh ...

The patient returned from travel to El Salvador, officials said. The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on ...

The New World Screwworm has rapidly spread northward from Panama since 2023 and farther into Central America. As of early September, the parasitic fly was present in seven states in southern Mexico, ...