Texas agriculture commissioner said the northernmost active case from the parasitic New World screwworm fly was a “flashing ...

A fly capable of laying hundreds of eggs inside living flesh is heading our way. Known as the New World screwworm, reports ...

Federal health officials reported on Monday that cases of a flesh-eating parasitic infection continue to be detected near the ...

Sid Miller, the Texas agriculture commissioner, described the New World screwworm as a ‘direct and imminent threat’ to his ...

Texas has announced it would begin rolling out a new strategy to prevent the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite carried by flies, from infiltrating farms near the southern border. The New ...

Health officials are warning of a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on living tissue and can infest humans. The larvae feed on healthy tissue, according to health experts. New World Screwworm was ...

The United States has confirmed its first human case of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly larva that feeds on living tissue, raising concerns about the pest’s northward spread. Human case ...

Cattle will need relief from the biting activity from fly pests now, and applying insecticides to the animals is the fastest ...

The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Monday. New World screwworm (NWS) is a species of parasitic flies ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, center, places fly pupae into a container to be dyed following a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of a Domestic New World Screwworm Sterile ...

Professor Gideon Wasserberg at UNC Greensboro has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant to advance his research on controlling sand flies, the vectors of the ...