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The human case of screwworm reported this week by U.S. health officials is the country's only case so far this year and poses ...
The pest, which typically affects livestock, feasts on healthy tissue and can be deadly if not promptly treated.
The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...
The overall risk to the public is low, according to the CDC. The larvae do not spread from person to person. People are most ...
Rollins opened an $8.5 million facility in South Texas for releasing sterile New World screwworm flies and introduced a ...
The nearly three-week delay between the confirmation of the case on Aug. 4 and the U.S. government’s disclosure erodes trust ...
The government's confirmation of a screwworm case comes just over a week after U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary ...
A person in Maryland has been diagnosed with an infection of the flesh-eating New World screwworm. It's the first case in the ...