A 49-year-old man ended up with a severe case of flesh-eating bacterial infection, known as necrotizing fasciitis, which escalated after a faulty hair transplant procedure in Kerala. The man from ...

Shaquil Aribuk from the Republic of Palau shares how he caught a flesh-eating bacteria that altered his physical appearance.

Richard Empson stands on an artificial right leg after his battle with vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that shows ...

The words “flesh-eating bacteria” may conjure images of a widespread infection leading to a zombie apocalypse in a sci-fi film. The reality is a lot less sensational, but no less deadly ...

The United States has suspended all animal imports from Mexico due to a parasitic fly that can produce flesh-eating maggots. New World screwworms are the cause of the indefinite suspension of ...

However, warming global temperatures aid the flesh-eating screwworm, which thrives in hot, moist, tropical environments and cannot survive prolonged exposure to cold temperatures, per the USDA.

The United States is halting imports of livestock from Mexico to protect U.S. livestock from a flesh-eating parasite called the New World Screwworm. The New World Screwworm, or the NWS for short ...

All imports of live cattle, horse and bison from the southern border have been banned due to the spread of a flesh-eating pest in Mexico, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Sunday.

(NewsNation) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would be suspending all cattle, horse and bison imports from Mexico after a flesh-eating parasite known as a screwworm was detected.

New World screwworm disease is an infestation with the larvae of the NWS fly that lives off the flesh of living mammals and, less commonly, birds. When the fly lays its eggs in open wounds ...

While the U.S. and Mexico may still be hashing out the tariff situation, the countries are again united on one common enemy: the New World Screwworm. A parasite, the New World Screwworm, is ...