{"id":12613,"date":"2025-08-26T02:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/first-u-s-screwworm-case-in-years-confirmed-in-maryland\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:20:47","slug":"first-u-s-screwworm-case-in-years-confirmed-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/first-u-s-screwworm-case-in-years-confirmed-in-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"First U.S. screwworm case in years confirmed in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click in for more news from Blue Light News {beacon} Health Care Health Care &#8202; The Big Story  First U.S. screwworm case in years confirmed in Maryland  Federal officials in the U.S. have found the first human case of the flesh-eating parasite New World Screwworm connected to ongoing outbreaks in Central America&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5469943-first-u-s-screwworm-case-in-years-confirmed-in-maryland\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click in for more news from Blue Light News {beacon} Health Care Health Care &#8202; The Big Story First U.S. screwworm case in years confirmed in Maryland Federal officials in the U.S. have found the first human case of the flesh-eating parasite New World Screwworm connected to ongoing outbreaks in Central America&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}