The US Health Department has reported the first human case in the United States of the New World in Maryland, a carnivorous parasite associated with travel, coming from a country affected by the epidemic. The case was confirmed by the Centers for the control and prevention of diseases (CDC) and involved a person returning from a trip to El Salvador, said Andrew G Nixon, a spokesperson for the American health department.
“The risk to public health in the United States deriving from the introduction of this parasite is very low,” he added. The divergences between the government of the United States and the sources of the industry on the origin of the human case will probably irritate cattle breeders, cattle producers and cattle traders already in a state of maximum alert for potential infestations in the United States, since the worm of the new world has moved north from Central America and southern Mexico.