Almost by chance, researchers in Norway have found that adult comb jellies reverse their development and become larva again when stressed by starvation. It helps them survive because larva eat less ...

Héctor Albores Cruz, deputy secretary of cattle ranching for the state of Chiapas, said the cattle come in through an area ...

Screwworm parasites are getting closer and closer to the U.S. border. The parasites primarily infect cows. Officials in nine countries are trying to get a handle on the New World screwworm, a fly ...

The flesh-eating parasite was detected in northern Mexico. It is the northernmost case of the livestock infection, which was eradicated from the United States in the 1960s.

In July, Mexican officials found an NWS case in Veracruz, 370 miles from the US border. On Sunday, Mexico’s National Service ...

Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "The New World Screwworm has been working its way north through Mexico and has been found in ...

BALTIMORE, Md. (7News) — A Maryland resident has been diagnosed with a rare, flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S.

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. A deadly flesh-eating parasitic larva was just found in a human in the U.S. Is that cause for panic? Probably not. State and federal health officials ...