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Cassandra Garrison, Tom Polansek, Leah Douglas | Reuters

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

Cassandra Garrison, Tom Polansek, Leah Douglas | Reuters

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.