A Maryland resident has been diagnosed with a rare parasitic infection known as New World screwworm (NWS), marking the first human case in the United States in years. The Centers for Disease Control ...
On August 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed the first human case of New World screwworm (NWS), a flesh-eating parasite, in Maryland. The case, identified in a ...
The patient returned from travel to El Salvador, officials said. The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on ...
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, related to a ...
Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But ...
A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...
Mosquitoes in many places in the world including South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa carry Plasmodium parasites, which cause malaria. In the past several months, health officials confirmed that four ...