New World screwworm

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New World screwworm (plural New World screwworms)

  1. An egg, larva, pupa, or adult of genus Cochliomyia, especially of species Cochliomyia hominivorax, which feeds on living tissue, or Cochliomyia macellaria, which does not.
    • 2025 July 2, “U.S. plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest”, in NBC News‎[1], sourced from The Associated Press, archived from the original on 3 July 2025:
      The New World screwworm fly is a tropical species, unable to survive Midwestern or Great Plains winters, so it was a seasonal scourge.
    • 2025 August 25, “First human case of flesh-eating screwworm parasite confirmed in US”, in The Guardian‎[2], sourced from Reuters, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 August 2025:
      Earlier, Reuters reported that beef industry sources said last week that the CDC had confirmed a case of New World screwworm in a person in Maryland who had traveled to the US from Guatemala.

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