The Indiana Department of Health's Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Prevention Division has published a New World Screwworm page on IN.gov, the State of Indiana's official web portal.

The resource carries the title "Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Prevention Division: New World Screwworm" and is hosted within the state government's domain. The page appears as an epidemiology-division posting, the standard channel Indiana uses for practitioner-facing disease information.

What is the Indiana page telling veterinarians?

Placement under the Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Prevention Division signals that the material is intended for clinicians, rather than a general consumer audience. State epidemiology divisions typically use such pages to publish agent overviews, reporting instructions, specimen-submission guidance, and contact information for the department's zoonosis or reportable-disease program.

Practitioners searching the IN.gov portal for the New World Screwworm listing will find it cross-referenced from the Division's index rather than from a news release or press bulletin, indicating an evergreen informational resource rather than a time-bound advisory.

Why does a Midwestern state host a screwworm resource?

New World Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) is a myiasis-causing parasite of warm-blooded animals. Although the species was declared eradicated from the United States in 1966 through the sterile insect technique, the fly persists in parts of the Caribbean and South America and represents a recurring introduction risk to any U.S. state that imports livestock, pets, or wildlife from endemic regions. Federal agriculture authorities maintain a permanent sterile-fly barrier in Panama as a continental defense, and any incursion triggers coordinated federal-state response.

Indiana's epidemiology division hosting the material keeps the disease within the routine reporting infrastructure available to Indiana-licensed veterinarians. Companion-animal practitioners who see dogs with travel history, food-animal veterinarians handling imported or returning livestock, and public-health staff investigating potential human myiasis cases all share the same notifiable-disease pathway through the Division.

What changes at the exam table?

A Division posting on IN.gov does not change clinical practice on its own. It does, however, confirm that the disease sits within Indiana's standard surveillance and reporting workflow. Practitioners who suspect larval infestation in a warm-blooded patient — typical presentation is a non-healing lesion containing visible maggots that burrow into living tissue — should treat it as a notifiable condition and contact the Division through the contact routes listed on the IN.gov page.

What to watch next

The Indiana page is a static resource rather than an active outbreak advisory, and the Division's index will reflect any escalation in status. Veterinarians should monitor the IN.gov Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Prevention Division listings and any companion updates from USDA APHIS for changes to the U.S. screwworm status that would re-shape import examinations, herd surveillance, and reporting obligations in Indiana.