Kansas public health officials are advising providers to be on the lookout for humans infected with flesh-eating maggots of the New World screwworm. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

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 ...

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, ...

The first case of a New World screwworm infestation in a human was confirmed in the U.S., according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Travel-associated New World screwworm was detected ...

A screwworm may sound like a creature straight out of a Stephen King novel. Unfortunately, it's a real pest -- one that has made its way back to the United States after being kicked out years ago.