At least 30 people have been infected with a potentially deadly flesh eating parasite in Nicaragua as the previously ...

Nicaragua’s health ministry has confirmed that 30 people have been infected by the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia ...

The NWS or Cochliomyia hominivorax is a cause for myiasis, a parasitic infestation of the body which affects animals and humans. During feeding, the larvae of the fly cause severe lesions ... Although ...

Mexico will resume cattle exports to the United States starting this week, after the detection of screwworm parasites ...

Give a screwworm an inch ... as the worms dig ever deeper into their dinner. Cochliomyia hominivorax has not been found in Texas since 1982, but it remains common in parts of South America ...

Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax ... eradicate the parasitic fly. The authorities added ...

“Any person who contravenes the Belize Agricultural Health Authority Statutory Instrument 143 of 2024, New World Screwworm Prevention, Control, and Eradication Regulations commits an offense and ...

The New World screwworm fly was eradicated in the US in the mid-1960s, but a new sighting in southern Mexico has authorities in Texas on alert for a little insect that can do a lot of damage.