Screwworm has now reached Texas, breaching the barrier designed to keep it from moving north of Panama.
These larvae can devastate livestock. Human cases are less common but can be severe & disfiguring.
We recently saw a case in Toronto in a traveller returning from Costa Rica.
Isaac Bogoch
Flesh-eating screwworm case suspected in South Texas, USDA says reut.rs/3QkFNbm
An infestation of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite may have been detected in South Texas, and a sample is at a federal government laboratory for testing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
