The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert to clinicians Tuesday, warning that the savage, flesh ...

A person in Maryland is confirmed to have a screwworm living in them. It is the first case in the U.S. in several years. The person, who was not identified, had traveled to the U.S. from El Salvador, ...

Health officials say the immediate threat is low — but the parasite’s arrival could have massive economic consequences, with billions in potential agricultural losses at stake. Stacey Leasca is an ...

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they'll kill off a species of insect known for laying its flesh-eating larvae in the wounds ...

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 ...