A Horrific Parasite Is Back — And Elon Musk's DOGE Could Be Partly To Blame

Cuts the department made to USAID included a program dedicated to preventing the spread of the screwworm across the ...

The flesh-eating screwworm is here — but its name is misleading people

If you're wondering whether they'll eat your flesh, keep reading.

The US Has a Plan to Combat Screwworm. It Involves a Lot More Flies

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity ...
AOL

Screwworm threat returns to US: Why it matters

In 2025, the United States faced a series of reminders that the security of our food supply depends on public health systems that are largely invisible to the general population. Poultry and dairy ...
Scientific American

Flesh-Eating ‘Screwworm’ Parasites Are Headed to the U.S.

Officials in nine countries are trying to get a handle on the New World screwworm, a fly whose larvae eat the living flesh of livestock. The pest is marching northward at an alarming rate and has now ...
The Baltimore Sun

First US human case of flesh-eating screwworm traced to Maryland from Guatemala

The first human screwworm case in the United States has been traced to a person in Maryland, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC and Maryland Department of Health ...
FOX10 News

First human case of flesh-eating screwworm detected in the United States

(Gray News) - The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite, New World Screwworm, has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to NBC on Monday.
Time

A Rare Flesh-Eating Screwworm Infects U.S. Resident

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