By Cassandra Garrison, Tom Polansek and Leah Douglas BUENOS AIRES/CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health ...

A horrifying case of a flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in the US - the first human infection seen in years.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has reported the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, from an outbreak-affected ...

Decades after the US declared it eradicated, a rare flesh-eating parasite has resurfaced in a person who returned from ...

The bulldozers at Bernard's Beach did more than tear down concrete walls. They uprooted nearly two decades of political history, leveling the headquarters of Liberia's largest opposition party, the ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday reported the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, from an ...

A case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been identified in a person in Maryland who had traveled to the United States from Guatemala, according to four sources familiar with the situation.

Reuters reported on Sunday evening that a person who had traveled to the U.S. from Guatemala was confirmed as receiving ...

Screwworms can be devastating in cattle and wildlife, and rarely infest humans, though an infestation in either an animal or ...

Mississippi's infant mortality rate nearly double the most recent national average of 5.6 deaths per 1,000, according to the ...