CDC Activates Emergency Ops as Flesh-Eating Screwworm Outbreak Hits US

if it spreads unchecked.

Conservative critics are questioning whether lax border policies and delayed surveillance allowed the pest to reach U.S. territory after advancing through Central America and Mexico.

The New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) can be “deadly.”

Female flies lay their eggs in the open wounds or mucous membranes of warm-blooded continue reading …