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.

Federal health officials reported on Monday that cases of a flesh-eating parasitic infection continue to be detected near the ...

The U.S. has blocked imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through southern border ports following the resurgence in Mexico of the New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly that infects animals and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kansas public health officials are advising providers to be on the lookout for humans infected with flesh-eating maggots of the ...

Maggot therapy is a wound healing technique in which healthcare professionals apply medical grade maggots to dead or infected tissue to keep the wound clean. It is also known as larval therapy. Maggot ...

Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes. Scientists are working to turn the findings into therapies Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine A computer illustration ...

Ranchers wearing cowboy hats and baseball caps filled the auditorium earlier this month at the Texas A&M AgriLife office in ...

A Charlotte nursing home that allowed a woman’s wound to become infested with maggots has already been cited by North Carolina’s health department. Now, her grandson is asking a judge to make the ...