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The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...
The U.S. confirmed its first human diagnosis of the flesh-eating bacteria screwworm since 1982 after its known eradication ...
Rollins opened an $8.5 million facility in South Texas for releasing sterile New World screwworm flies and introduced a ...
The CDC confirmation came about a week and a half before the U.S. agriculture secretary said Texas would host a sterile fly ...
The nearly three-week delay between the confirmation of the case on August 4 and the U.S. government's disclosure erodes ...
The New World screwworm is a type of fly that can cause widespread devastation to livestock, wildlife and pets.
HHS spokesperson Andrew G. Nixon said the human case reported in the U.S. was related to this outbreak. The case was reported ...