Earlier this week, the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) confirmed the first humanitarian state of my childhood to eat meat in the United States
A HHS spokesman told ABC News that the patient, a resident of Maryland, recently returned from traveling to El Salvador and found that he had new worms from the new world.
Amid the outbreak of the parasite between livestock in Mexico and countries throughout Central America.
Here’s what you need to know about the injury, including how it is spread, what are the signs and how it can be treated.
What is the new world worm?
The new global code (NWS) is a type of parasitic fly that feeds on live tissues and can cause myias disease, which is a larvae, or maggots.
They can infect many types of animals, including livestock, pets, wildlife, and in rare cases, humans.
Cochliomyiah hominivorax, the new global screw fly, or a screw for a short period, is a type of parasitic fly that is well famous for the way it takes its live tissues.
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“The type of new global code has its name because these are small parasites, and when it is already landing on an open wound, they will roam the wound – so they wander – and they consume in reality the tissues,” said Lori Verins, a participant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at North Estrern News.
Verins explained that the female NWS will find a living host, fall into an open wound and put somewhere between 200 and 300 eggs. After the egg slot, the maggots are rooted in the tissues and causes painful injuries.
There is usually not usually in the United States in the United States and is located in countries in Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, according to what he said Disease control and prevention centers (CDC).
It can cause NWS infection Several symptoms Including skin lesions that do not heal or exacerbate over time, painful wounds or sores, bleed from open sores, feeling or seeing a sore in ulcers or bad smell from the site of the injury, according to the Center for Disease Control.
The Federal Health Agency said it can also be found in the eyes, nose and mouth.
“The new world worm larvae are particularly bad, and for this reason this name has been granted,” Dr. Shera Doron, head of the Tuffs Medicine Health System, told ABC News. “Here in the hospital, we may have a patient who enters, and with a painful open wound, we may notice that there are larvae or Agots in it.”
How is it dealt with?
There is currently no Treating drugs only But there are effective treatments for NWS infection. If someone believes that he may be injured or see and feel a wound or anywhere else in the body, he must contact the health care provider immediately, according to the Center for Disease Control.
The Disease Control Center says that the doctor will have to remove radio, which may require surgery. The agency said that patients should not try to remove or get rid of wealth themselves.
“We want to remove it physically, kill them, and send it to a special laboratory to see if we are dealing with something from another country, which then means the need to respond to the most powerful public health to prevent it from becoming a large -scale problem,” Doron said.
How to prevent infection
Doron said that anyone traveling to parts of the world where NWS should be common Keep any covered open wounds And the use of an insect repellent approved by the Environmental Protection Agency.
She said: “Things like long sleeves, long pants, and enter your pants in your socks, and all the techniques that you may have heard to avoid insect bites, because there are many health effects associated with a wide range of insects.”
In this unknown image, cattle is displayed on a road on Otetepe Island, Rivas State, Nicaragua.
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Verins said that there are currently efforts to prevent the parasite from crossing to the United States, including building a sterile fly facility in Texas.
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“Only, this means that when the female spiral worm fly into a kind of laying eggs again, it does not hatch. This is effectively stopping the life cycle.”
How worried about us?
Verins said that the United States flipped the spiral worm in 1966, and the country was relatively empty of the parasite, regardless of the outbreak of 2017 in Florida Keys.
She said: “Florida’s injury or period of injury is the result of animal infections, so there was no human infection at that time.” “Therefore, it is very rare to have a human infection in reality.”
An animal’s screw in the United States has not been discovered, but the US Department of Agriculture said in a press release Earlier this month, NWS “not only a threat to our livestock community – but it represents a threat to our food supplies and national security.”
Verins added that the risk of infection is currently low in the United States, so there is no reason for great anxiety.
“My advice to people will be: Be careful, but in the end, there are no active signs of infection here, locally acquired in the United States,” she said.
ABC News’ Your Benadjaoud contributed to this report.