The screwworm, a flesh-eating bug, is threatening cattle herds in the U.S. after a case of New World screwworm was confirmed in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The parasitic fly’s larvae feed exclusively on the living tissue of warm-blooded animals.
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