Cattle at a feedlot near North Platte, Nebraska. (AndrewLinscott/iStock/Getty Images)

U.S. confirms nation’s first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak

USDA criticized by cattle producers for failing to take timely measures to prevent screwworm from entering the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday reported the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, from an outbreak-affected country.