Brain-eating worms known as 'rat lungworm' have been found in San Diego County, the first time the parasitic worms have been ...

U.S. health authorities have confirmed the country’s first human infection involving the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. The case was identified on August 4 in Maryland in a patient who ...

TAMPA, Florida -- It's like something out of a science-fiction movie -- a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. But for one Florida man, it was reality. ***Warning: This story contains ...

A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

Screwworms are flesh-eating parasites that hatch in open wounds and burrow into skin. Left untreated, they can be deadly. The majority of cases are in livestock. A Maryland resident who traveled from ...

Hoards of flesh-eating worms have erupted from the ground in Texas, terrifying local residents. The invasive hammerhead worms — which can grow up to a foot long — came to the surface in the ...