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U.S. Resident Diagnosed With Rare Screwworm Parasite After Travel
The overall risk to the public is low, according to the CDC. The larvae do not spread from person to person. People are most at risk if they travel to areas with animal infestations, spend time around livestock, sleep outdoors or have open wounds.
A person in Maryland has been diagnosed with an infection of the flesh-eating New World screwworm. It's the first case in the ...
The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...
Rollins opened an $8.5 million facility in South Texas for releasing sterile New World screwworm flies and introduced a ...
The U.S. confirmed its first human diagnosis of the flesh-eating bacteria screwworm since 1982 after its known eradication ...
The government's confirmation of a screwworm case comes just over a week after U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary ...
The first human case of New World screwworm was confirmed in the United States after a Maryland resident was diagnosed ...
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 ...
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