Flesh-eating parasite with ‘sharp mouth hooks’ has US on alert for first time since 1966 By Kate Linderman. December 31, 2024 11:31 AM.

She is known as the 24-year-old Georgia woman who survived a flesh-eating disease five years ago, when her fall from a friend’s homemade zip line into a brackish river gashed her left leg and ...

A man contracted flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing at a Louisiana beach and is in the intensive care unit at a local hospital, according to his family and media reports. The man, Jessie Abshire ...

A New World Screwworm, which was eradicated in the U.S. in the 1960s, has officials on alert after it was detected in Mexico. Photo by the USDA A recent detection of a flesh-eating parasite in ...