Daily Mail on MSN

Second case of flesh-eating parasite that devours victims alive detected in US

A second case of the flesh-eating parasite New World Screwworm has been confirmed in Texas on Friday.
Crazy Creatures on MSN

Warning: These blood-sucking monsters carry diseases that can destroy your body

Ticks are among the most dangerous parasites on Earth, surviving entirely by feeding on the blood of animals and humans while ...
Yahoo

Parasite that eats animal — and human — hosts inside out threatens US meats: USDA

Danger to our food supply is lurking at the US-Mexico border. A terrifying parasite that hasn’t breached North America in over a century has reemerged in Mexico, the US Department of Agriculture has ...
AOL

The Parasite That’s Getting Dangerously Close to the US

A fly capable of laying hundreds of eggs inside living flesh is heading our way. Known as the New World screwworm, reports suggest that this terrifying parasite is now only 90 miles from the state of ...
insider.si.edu

People, parasites, and plowshares : learning from our body's most terrifying invaders / Dickson D. Despommier ; foreword by William C. Campbell

This new house : Trichinella spiralis -- Hooked on parasites : Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus -- Houdini's nefarious cousins : the trypanosomes, the schistosomes, and the lymphatic ...