Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kansas public health officials are advising providers to be on the lookout for humans infected with flesh-eating maggots of the ...

U.S. health authorities have confirmed the country’s first human infection involving the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. The case was identified on August 4 in Maryland in a patient who ...

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.

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, ...

Kansas health officials have alerted providers about the potential for human cases of New World screwworm. New World screwworm maggots burrow into and feed on the living flesh of animals and humans.