What’s armored, covered in worms, and has a rasping tongue? If you said the stuff of nightmares, you’re not wrong. Luckily, however, the critter in question is pretty small—and now famous. Meet ...

EDINBURG — The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn from crossing ...

Texas will not get screwed by the flesh-eating parasite known as the screwworm — with Gov. Greg Abbott declaring a preemptive disaster declaration before the devastating organism even gets to the Lone ...

A flesh-eating parasite is a cause for concern. The New World screwworm, also known as Cochliomyia hominivorax, is a species of parasitic fly that can cause myiasis, a parasitic infestation, according ...

The U.S. beef industry faces another headwind that could add to long-term drought and tariff considerations to keep prices elevated. New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite eradicated from the ...

A tongue-eating parasite may be one of the most disturbing survival strategies in the ocean. After entering a fish’s mouth, it cuts off blood flow to the tongue until the tissue dies, then consumes it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An outbreak of the flesh-eating New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has killed seven people and infected at least 1,190 ...

In the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala, the New World screwworm fly’s rapid spread appears to have caught most ranchers off guard, despite memories of previous outbreaks in the ...

A flesh-eating parasite spreading throughout Mexico is now closer to Texas, posing a dangerous threat to the state's livestock, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a health ...

Vivian Nosovitsky, 21, had finished another year of traveling abroad when she noticed pain in her eye Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...