HHS told Reuters patient had returned from El Salvador but beef industry said person had traveled from Guatemala

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Sunday reported the first human case in the US of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, from an outbreak-affected country.

The case, investigated by the Maryland department of health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was confirmed by the CDC as New World screwworm on 4 August – and involved a patient who returned from travel to El Salvador, an HHS spokesperson, Andrew G Nixon, said in an email to Reuters.

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The onstage ranting of a comedian is interrupted by impassioned accounts of violence against women in Sadie Pearson’s drama

Full Frontal Theatre is a female-led company with a commitment to fighting misogyny. No surprise, then, that the most powerful moments in Sadie Pearson’s play are when actor Merida Beasley interrupts the male-dominated action to deliver impassioned and graphic accounts of violence against women.

That she is credited only as “Woman” is not an oversight. It is an ironic comment on her invisibility. As far as hate-fuelled comedian Rodney Black (Ben Willows) is concerned, she could be anyone. Whether one-night stand or admin assistant, he will not even ask her name.

‘I had moved down from Glasgow and was sharing a council flat with the girls from Bananarama. We wrote the song after watching the Frank Sinatra film’

I first glimpsed Siobhan Fahey at my publisher’s offices. Later that day, when I was being interviewed by Smash Hits, I told the interviewer: “I really fancy Siobhan from Bananarama.” The next night, she was at our concert, at the front. I remember saying to my bandmates Ken and Dave McCluskey: “I’m gonna get off with her.”

In the country’s north, people recall the terror of soaring flood waters that killed hundreds, and blame authorities for poor planning

As flood waters surged through the streets and submerged the houses, Bilawal Jamshed rushed to the rooftop with his family, terrified the water would swallow everyone in Mingora, Swat, in Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

“Everything happened in seconds, as if a dam had burst and water rushed toward us. We were lucky it was morning and we could escape to the rooftops. Imagine if it had happened at night,” says Jamshed, 36, while walking through streets still filled with foul-smelling sludge, as residents and volunteers struggle to clean up more than a week after the devastating floods.

In a new survey, 45% of this age group were considering looking for jobs with more social interaction – and the loneliest of all were influencers

Name: Office work.

Age: The first purpose-built offices appeared in the 18th century.

In North Karelia the border guard is training conscripts, the only road crossing is empty – but there is still some limited cross-border cooperation

Among the serene lakes, thick forest and summer houses of North Karelia’s border zone, the line between Finland and Russia is almost invisible. Walking along the border path in Meriinaho, part of the Finnish border guard station of Ilomantsi, we are closer to St Petersburg than to Helsinki. This is the most easterly point of the continental European Union.

Every now and then a discreet pair of matching striped fibreglass posts pop up from the blueberry patches on either side of the frontier. One is painted blue and white to indicate Finland, the other green and red to mark Russia.