{"id":78724,"date":"2025-08-25T14:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78724"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:33:57","slug":"flesh-eating-screwworm-parasite-detected-in-person-in-us-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/flesh-eating-screwworm-parasite-detected-in-person-in-us-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Flesh-eating screwworm parasite detected in person in US for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thfvnext.bing.com\/th\/id\/OIF.Epuoa5C9gOAA9dkkUNQzWw?w=279&h=186&c=7&r=0&o=7&cb=thfvnext&dpr=1.5&pid=1.7&rm=3\" alt=\"Image result for Flesh Eating Screwworm\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been detected in a person in the United States for the first time.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?qs=LT&pq=flesh-eating+screw&sk=CSYN1&sc=4-18&pglt=297&q=flesh+eating+screwworm&cvid=cef9c48d1a3d4a9a81fa2eca7d139f64&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIARAAGEAyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQNIBCTE5OTE1ajBqMagCALACAA&FORM=ANNTA1&DAF1=1&PC=HCTS\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 A case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been detected in a person in the United States for the first time.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/screw-worm.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78726,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78724\/revisions\/78726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}