The CDC confirmation came about a week and a half before the U.S. agriculture secretary said Texas would host a sterile fly ...

As Texas ramps up efforts to stop the spread of a flesh-eating parasite, health officials confirmed Monday the first U.S.

Federal and state officials are now monitoring an outbreak that has reached 370 miles from the Texas-Mexico border. Crews are ...

A flesh-eating parasite nearly eradicated decades ago is headed for Texas, cattle producers warn, prompting urgent calls for ...

"The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low," said HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon.

The nearly three-week delay between the confirmation of the case on August 4 and the U.S. government's disclosure erodes ...

A rare human case of a flesh-eating parasite known as New World screwworm has been confirmed in a Maryland resident as the ...

The U.S. confirmed its first human diagnosis of the flesh-eating bacteria screwworm since 1982 after its known eradication ...

The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed the first human case of the flesh-eating New World screwworm ...

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The parasite has been a larger concern to ranchers, as cattle infestations have been moving northward through Central America ...