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 [...]