A Kansas health alert from KDHE warns local health departments and providers of the human risk from New World screwworm and ...

The New World screwworm infested a human in the U.S. for the first time in years and federal officials are working to prevent ...

The New World screwworm can be deadly for humans and animals, and can devastate livestock. Currently, the risk is said to be ...

New World screwworm was essentially eradicated in the U.S. in 1966, but the persistent pest has rebounded through ...

Fly larvae take over the tissue or flesh of warm-blooded animals. In places where the flies are present, people can become ...

Reuters said the travel-related case was in Maryland and that the person infected had returned there from El Salvador.

Add the New World Screwworm to the list of unsettling pathogens that have sickened Americans this summer. Here's the others and how to stay safe.

Federal and state officials are now monitoring an outbreak that has reached 370 miles from the Texas-Mexico border. Crews are ...