There were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections confined to three countries in 2025, a historic low announced Friday by The Carter Center. The new mark comes barely a year after the death ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration Thursday in what his office described as an effort to ...

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

The New World screwworm is getting dangerously close to the U.S., public health officials warn. If left untreated, a ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Border Report) — During the late 1800s and well into the 1900s, the New World screwworm invaded the U.S., devastating livestock and requiring a decades-long eradication campaign.

MISSOURI, USA — Missouri is working ahead to prepare the state's residents and farms for a parasitic fly that could devastate communities and livestock. The pest, called New World Screwworm, was ...

The New World screwworm is a flesh-eating parasite that lays eggs in open wounds. It can be devastating to livestock and, in rare cases, humans. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/TNS) ...

A parasitic fly whose maggots can infest living livestock, birds, pets and humans, could threaten California soon. The New World Screwworm has rapidly spread northward from Panama since 2023 and ...

Kansas public health officials are advising providers to be on the lookout for humans infected with flesh-eating maggots of the New World screwworm. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...