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.

Objectives: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to...

• Recognize key signs of New World screwworm myiasis and when to suspect it. 

• Manage initial bedside care: remove larvae, care for the wound, and preserve specimens. 

• Report suspected cases and communicate relevant travel or animal-exposure history to appropriate officials

Intended Audience: Healthcare professionals, community health workers, and anyone interested in learning more about the topic

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 patients.