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International Business Times UK
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'Flesh-Eating Maggots' Back in the US After 60 Years – But Can the Deadly Screwworm Spread Between People?

'Flesh-eating maggots' may sound like something from a horror movie, but they have just made a shocking comeback in the United States for the first time in nearly 60 years.

Health officials in Maryland, alongside the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), confirmed that a traveller had been infected with the New World screwworm after returning from Central America.

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