New World Screwworm: Information for Healthcare Providers

Summary: This session will review the clinical features, specimen handling, epidemiologic clues, and reporting steps for New World screwworm myiasis so clinicians can recognize when to consider this rare but serious parasitic infestation, emphasizing that common wound etiologies remain far more likely and that screwworm should be a low-probability diagnosis except when compatible wounds, visible larvae, and recent travel/exposure to endemic areas are present.

Intended Audience: Healthcare professionals, ag safety and health professionals, veterinarians, and others who work with cattle.

Presenter: Andrew Hennenfent, DVM, MPH, DACVPM
State Public Health Veterinarian, Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

Disclosure to learners: None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.