CDC warns of flesh-eating parasite threat as travel spreads risk

By Richard Moorhead | The Western Journal

Even the name is grisly — but the behavior is even worse.

The parasite known as the New World screwworm, a type of fly larva that feeds on living flesh and can be fatal to its victims, has been confirmed as infecting a human in the United States, according to Reuters.

While human infections are vanishingly rare, the discovery has the nation’s beef industry on edge.

As the Associated Press reported, screwworms are a species of fly with females that seek out orifices of living mammals to lay their eggs — such as the eyes, nose, mouth, or bleeding open wounds.

When the eggs hatch, the larvae then bury into the flesh of the host organism with sharp teeth that burrow in like screws — hence the name.

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