{"id":10183,"date":"2025-08-27T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10183"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:05:00","slug":"us-human-screwworm-case-surprising-but-not-shocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/27\/us-human-screwworm-case-surprising-but-not-shocking\/","title":{"rendered":"US Human Screwworm Case \u2018Surprising\u2019, But \u2018Not Shocking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hoosier Ag Today<\/a> You\u2019ve been hearing quite a bit lately about the New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico and in central America\u2014and the harmful impact that the pest can have on cattle, horses and other animals. But, the CDC announced that a person from Maryland was recently found to be infected with NWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom what we understand, it was an individual who had made a trip to one of the countries in Central America that has New World screwworm\u2014which are all the countries in Central America right now. [That individual] came back, had some pain, went to seek treatment, and discovered that they were infested with New World screwworm larvae,\u201d according to Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen\u2019s Beef Association<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do know that the protocol worked in that individual, who was treated, and the larvae were destroyed. And while, yes, it\u2019s surprising to see that particular story, it\u2019s not shocking,\u201d says Woodall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though this recent human case is something the cattle industry is monitoring, Woodall adds it doesn\u2019t present a risk to the U.S. livestock industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think, for us, as we are taking a serious approach to protecting ourselves from New World screwworm, the things that we\u2019re looking at are, one, did the protocols work? And it\u2019s obvious that the protocols worked. Let\u2019s think about this for a minute from a human standpoint. If you go traveling, and somehow the New World screwworm female lays its eggs somewhere in your body, you come back to the United States, and you\u2019re going to have excruciating pain because these larvae, these maggots, are going to be eating you alive. So, you\u2019re going to go seek some sort of treatment,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoosier Ag Today You\u2019ve been hearing quite a bit lately about the New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico and in central America\u2014and the harmful impact that the pest can have on cattle, horses and other animals. But, the CDC announced that a person from Maryland was recently found to be infected with NWS. \u201cFrom what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10184,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions\/10184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}