He now spends his days digging worms out of haunches and treating wounds with powder. “This plague is back and it’s stronger ...

New World screwworm flies cause disease primarily in animals and livestock, but humans can be infested. NWS was eradicated in ...

Through a series of regional projects, the IAEA assists Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean in the prevention and progressive control of the New World Screwworm (NWS). The NWS or ...

A type of flesh-eating worm eradicated from the U.S. in the 1960s has been spotted again in Central America, prompting ...

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Some of the larvae were described as being of an unidentified blue fly; these are almost certainly very early references to myiasis caused by the New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel ...

Some of the larvae were described as being of an unidentified blue fly; these are almost certainly very early references to myiasis caused by the New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel ...

There is a decades-old international operation to eradicate the New World Screwworm from existence, and you’ve probably never ...

and the USA-Panama Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the New World Screwworm. “This workshop was absolutely crucial,” says Walther Enkerlin, an entomologist at the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre ...

In 1961, Doug began working for the Animal Disease Eradication Divion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and was proud of his role in the Screwworm Eradication Program in Texas. In 1963 he ...