The New World screwworm case is the first reported U.S. case​ tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak.

The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. Here's what ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ...

The CDC confirmed that a patient in Maryland, recently back from a trip to El Salvador, was diagnosed with a screwworm ...

As of August 21, 2025, the Florida Department of Health has reported new cases of Vibrio vulnificus. Here's where.

Tunneling wounds require careful treatment to prevent them from going deeper and to stop new tunnels from forming. Otherwise, more tissue will be destroyed and infection can spread, leading to ...

Abscesses and purulent drainage In some cases, your doctor might find that an abscess has formed. This happens when an infection causes a pocket of pus to form somewhere in the wound.

It was only the beginning.” Healing deeper wounds Inside the clinic in Philadelphia, HIV physician Laura Bamford speaks in Spanish to the patient whose abscess she just treated. “It’s a lot better, ...

Every so often, he gets in a scrap and comes home with a wound that I promptly wash off and apply antibiotic ointment to. This time, he has a big swelling that I think might be an abscess on his ...

Although sometimes an abscess will open and drain spontaneously, it often needs to be lanced (incision and drainage) by a health care provider. Certain abscesses may require a surgical drainage ...

Archive Typhoid–Bacillus Infection of a Surgical Wound: Treatment with a Urethane-Sulfanilamide Mixture Author: Louis Weinstein, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published February 7, 1946 ...