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

The New World screwworm in Mexico has prompted an almost year-long blockade on imported cattle and disrupted domestic feedlots and long-standing business relationships.

California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living ...

The ever-present case of the flesh-eating screw-worm parasite has been detected in a person in the United States, health authorities have confirmed. According to the government officials, the case was ...

The United States has paused those exports intermittently over the past year to protect its cattle herds from the New World ...

Researchers are trapping and tracking the New World screwworm to detect it early before it threatens livestock. The previous ...

The first case of a flesh-eating maggot in years has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed with Fast Company on Monday. The maggot, the larva ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A flesh-eating parasite has recently popped up in the United States not too far from the Midstate. While screwworms look like caterpillars before they turn into a butterfly, ...

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, ...

Juan Manuel Fleischer’s ancestors ranched on the borderlands before the United States existed, and the Arizona resident’s business importing Mexican cattle across the modern-day frontier has survived ...

Federal health officials confirmed the nation’s first travel-related human case of New World screwworm in a Maryland patient who recently returned from Central America, Reuters reported Monday. Health ...

The New World screwworm, whose larva “screws” into the skin and can infect humans as well as livestock, will be here within four months, experts say Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.