The Silent Creep of the New World Screwworm: A Public Health Warning on the Reemergence of Flesh-Eating Parasites
Executive Overview The intersection of human medicine, veterinary science, and public health policy is facing a mounting, insidious threat. Recent epidemiological data regarding human infestations of the New World Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax)—often referred to in clinical and colloquial terms as NWS myiasis—have illuminated a growing vulnerability across populations neighboring and interacting with expanding vector zones….
