The parasitic fly lays eggs in the open wounds and orifices of live animals—including, disturbingly, humans.

A type of flesh-eating maggot is making a comeback — and it’s creeping toward the United States. The new world screwworm is a blowfly whose larvae burrow into animal wounds and gorge on living tissue.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare human case of a deadly parasite infestation has become the latest unsettling pathogen to make headlines in the United ...

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 Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm — the first reported U.S. case tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak. The Centers for Disease ...

The USDA plans to open fly breeding and distribution centers to stop the spread of the screwworm fly. Sterile male flies will be released to curb wild breeding and reduce the population. The pest can ...

In this undated photo provided by The Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle Screwworms (COPEG), a worker drops New World screwworm fly larvae into a tray at a ...

Mexico’s cattle exports are facing serious challenges this year thanks to the continued threat of the flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite. While there have been no instances of the New World ...

View post: How Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s Son Inspired Ye’s New Album ‘Bully’ Texas skies are about to get crowded, but not with birds or drones. Instead, millions of sterilized flies are being ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a ...