Not all barnacles just sit on rocks and ships. Some invade crabs, growing like a parasitic root system that hijacks their bodies. A mysterious group called y-larvae has baffled scientists for over a ...

The U.S. eradicated NWS in 1966, though rare introductions have occurred. Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite ...

Just two months after reports warily noted that new world screwworms, flesh-eating parasites that are notorious for killing livestock, pets and other animals, hadn’t “made it back into the U.S. yet,” ...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite "New World screwworm "has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said early Monday. The case, involving a ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ravaging livestock. By Alexa Robles-Gil In early August, a case of myiasis, an ...

Flesh-eating screwworm larvae poised to invade the US have snuck into Maryland via the flesh of a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, upping anxiety about the ghastly—and economically ...