FDA green lights more screwworm medications: Should you give them to your pets?
The agency also authorized a preventive spray for large animals as the outbreak expands, with 45 U.S. animal cases reported in Texas and New Mexico.
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More cases of parasitic screwworm confirmed. Here's who is at risk, where it's spreading
The screwworm flies can lay eggs on any warm-blooded animal, including people. Those eggs develop into parasitic larvae, or maggots, that feed on the surrounding flesh as they burrow deeper.
This Flesh-Eating Fly Is Back in the U.S. – Scientists Are Tracking Where It Could Strike Next
A wound no bigger than a tick bite can be enough for New World screwworm to take hold. A female New World screwworm fly can deposit hundreds of eggs at a time in an animal’s or person’s wound. When those eggs hatch, the larvae do something most maggots do not: they burrow into healthy flesh [...]
FDA green lights more screwworm medications: Should you give them to your pets?
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorizations for more medications that can prevent and treat infestations of the flesh-eating New World screwworm spreading along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The reemergence of the screwworm fly in the United States is raising alarm among scientists and public health authorities. The species, known for causing significant damage to animal and human health, has been identified again in American territory after decades of successful eradication. Characteristics and impact of the screwworm fly The screwworm fly, or Cochliomyia hominivorax, is an insect species whose females can lay up to 3,000 eggs in w…
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