Schools have been forced to close across Greece due to bacterial infections that have triggered widespread panic among ...

Imagine a tiny cut turning into a life-threatening ordeal. Along the coasts, a deadly flesh-eating bacteria is making this ...

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 ...

Congress has found a rare point of unity: stopping U.S. cattle from getting swarmed by flesh-eating flies coming from Mexico. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing forward the STOP Screwworms ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins shut down the US-Mexico border for live cattle, horse, and bison imports due to the threat of a the parasite known as the new world screwworm.

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.

Federal and state officials, and farmers and ranchers across the country, have been increasingly concerned about the possible presence of a flesh-eating parasite called the New World screwworm.

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 ...

Last week, the United States halted all cattle trade with Mexico to stop the spread of a parasitic flesh-eating fly known as the New World screwworm. According US Department of Agriculture (USDA ...

ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - The United States Department of Agriculture is suspending imports of cattle, horse and bison at the U.S.-Mexico border in efforts to combat the spread of the New World ...

New World Screwworms plagued American cattle through the mid-twentieth century. Their larvae burrow into the skin of cattle and other mammals, causing infection, disease and death – and they are ...