These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration in a preemptive response to the potential spread of the New World ...

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Infected flies are attracted to open wounds, where they burrow and lay eggs.

AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Abbott says he's now working to protect the food supply and your wallet. He's issued a disaster declaration over a flesh-eating fly that could threaten it! It's called the ...

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn ...

TEXAS, USA — A minuscule maggot from Central and South America that ravages livestock is moving at a "rapid northward spread," triggering alarms among Texas officials. The parasitic fly larva, known ...

A flesh-eating parasite is a cause for concern. The New World screwworm, also known as Cochliomyia hominivorax, is a species of parasitic fly that can cause myiasis, a parasitic infestation, according ...

A flesh-eating parasite spreading throughout Mexico is now closer to Texas, posing a dangerous threat to the state's livestock, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a health ...