The New World screwworm feeds on live tissue, according to the CDC ...

Texas has issued a statewide disaster declaration in response to the growing threat posed by the flesh‑eating parasite known ...

New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite eradicated from the U.S. in 1982, has resurfaced in several Mexican states that ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration on Thursday to combat a flesh-eating parasite threatening to invade from ...

Texas will not get screwed by the flesh-eating parasite known as the screwworm — with Gov. Greg Abbott declaring a preemptive ...

A “horrific” flesh-eating parasite, which was eradicated in the U.S. in the 1960s, is migrating north from South America The New World screwworm is a fly that lays its eggs on or near a wound; Its ...

An outbreak of the flesh-eating New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has killed seven people and infected at least 1 ...

Federal agencies conducted a first-of-its-kind simulation to prepare for a potential New World screwworm outbreak that could ...

The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ran a simulation preparing for an ...

A flesh-eating parasite spreading throughout Mexico is now closer to Texas, posing a dangerous threat to the state's livestock, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a health ...

Governor Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration as more than 14,000 cases of New World screwworm have been ...