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Maryland Resident Is Diagnosed With New World Screwworm. What to Know About the Parasite
A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm — the first reported U.S. case tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the diagnosis on Aug.
The New World screwworm case is the first reported U.S. case tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak.
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Rare human case of New World screwworm identified in United States after travel from El Salvador
A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a ...
The parasite — the larvae of the new world screwworm fly — can devastate cattle herds and is rife in parts of Central America ...
The U.S. confirmed its first human diagnosis of the flesh-eating bacteria screwworm since 1982 after its known eradication ...
The first travel-related human case of a flesh-eating parasite was detected in the United States, the Department of Health ...
"The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low," said HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon.
The CDC confirmation came about a week and a half before the U.S. agriculture secretary said Texas would host a sterile fly ...
When Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said on Aug. 15 that the New World screwworm had not been reported or detected in the United States “in ...
The nearly three-week delay between the confirmation of the case on August 4 and the U.S. government's disclosure erodes ...
The government’s confirmation of a screwworm case comes just over a week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary ...
A case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been identified in a person in Maryland who had traveled to the United ...
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