On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to Reuters that a person in Maryland has been infested with the New World screwworm. The parasite has posed a threat to the ...

The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...

Older men are 13 times more likely to die by firearm suicide than women, but a new study by Boston University School of ...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite New World screwworm has been detected, according to the Department of ...

A U.S. traveler who spent time in Guatemala before returning to Maryland has been diagnosed with New World screwworm.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has chosen Retsef Levi, a member of its key vaccine panel, to lead its ...

The CDC is finalizing the termination of at least 600 employees this week, including some working in violence prevention programs.

A notorious flesh-eating parasite has been detected in a US patient for the first time in decades, health officials ...