Lawmakers have introduced the "Safeguarding America’s Food Economy and Controlling Agricultural Threats to Livestock and ...

A parasitic worm that feeds on the live tissue of animals is spreading throughout South and Central America.Now, the FDA is ...

Healthbeat reports the resurgence of the New World screwworm threatens U.S. cattle, highlighting the fragility of food ...

Screwworm flies lay their eggs in wounds, noses, ears, eyes or mouths. Their eggs develop into maggots that feed on the ...

The center, which will disperse sterile flies, is part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite from coming into ...

A deadly parasite was intercepted before an infected horse could enter the United States.

The U.S. has opened its first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades in southern Texas.

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration in a preemptive response to the potential spread of the New World ...

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. Mexico has confirmed a new case of New World ...

These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

New World screwworm larva, like the one pictured, will hatch and feed on the flesh of living animals, typically cattle. Cases in humans are rare but can be fatal. (AP | USDA Agricultural Research ...

Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. The patient, a Maryland resident, had recently returned from ...