Fearing a resurgence of the New World Screwworm parasite in the U.S., the Department of Agriculture block livestock imports ...

An old 9-1-1 episode that has gone viral on TikTok and for good reason. If you have a problem with maggots, look away now.

Fearing a resurgence of the New World Screwworm parasite in the US, the Department of Agriculture block livestock imports from Mexico ...

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New World screwworm flies cause myiasis, an infection of flesh-eating maggots that burrow into the skin of living animals, causing serious and often fatal damage, Reuters reported. The fly is ...

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The New World screwworm is endemic in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean — and its northward spread into Mexico has ...

The maggots feast on the flesh and blood of their host with tiny mouth hooks. Left untreated, the parasitic infection can kill a full-grown cow within one to two weeks. Efforts to get rid of the ...

The fly gets its name for how its maggots feed on an animal by burrowing, or screwing, into an open wound, creating "extension damage by tearing at the hosts' tissue with sharp mouth hooks," the ...