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Danger to our food supply is lurking at the US-Mexico border. A terrifying parasite that hasn’t beached North America in over a century may have recently crossed over from Mexico, the US Department of Agriculture has warned. Health officials in Mexico alerted the US about a recent infestation of New World screwworm in a cow from Chiapas during an inspection near the Guatemala border. Group of screwworm larvae in a bowl 3 Screwworm larvae are flesh-eating maggots typically found congregating on the periphery of flesh wounds. California Department of Food and Agriculture Screwworm flies prefer to nest on the periphery of fresh wounds in warm-blooded animals — as well as humans — depositing hundreds of eggs that hatch into flesh-eating maggots, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.