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

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

STORY: The U.S. has confirmed the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm. It involved ...

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

The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) announced this month it has developed a state-of-the-art attractant to track New ...

A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who patrol border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also serve as defense against screwworm.