A Kansas health alert from KDHE warns local health departments and providers of the human risk from New World screwworm and its flesh-eating maggots.

The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. Here's what ...

A parasitic fly whose maggots can infest living livestock, birds, pets and humans, could threaten California soon.

The first human case of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite called “new world screwworm” has been detected in the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. According to ...

A screengrab of a live maggot pressed out of a child's leg [Facebook Naitwa Faiza] A few weeks ago, a woman going by the name Naitwa Faiza Karaz on Facebook shared how worms had crawled out of her son ...

The new world screw worm fly maggots feed on the flesh of animals, creating some big losses in the agricultural industry. But ...