The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...

The U.S. has again ceased livestock imports from Mexico related to the presence of the parasitic New World screwworm fly ...

Adult New World screwworm flies resemble the common blowfly but have multiple distinguishing features.

Mexico has reported the first-ever human case of myiasis caused by a screwworm. According to Mexico's Health Ministry, the case was detected in a 77-year-old woman from the municipality of ...

The US has reinstated its livestock import ban from Mexico after the New World screwworm fly was found further north than ...

US government plans $8.5 million facility near Mexico border to breed sterile male New World screwworm flies to prevent flesh-eating parasites from infesting cattle.

Screwworm is a parasitic fly that targets warm-blooded animals and has the potential to disrupt Texas’ $15 billion cattle industry.

News What to know about New World screwworm flies — and what’s at stake for Texas livestock Experts say the main threat stems not from the adult fly, but its larvae.

The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving northward in Mexico.

The US Government will be opening a fly factory in Texas to mass produce millions of infecund flies as part of a sterilization campaign aimed at eliminating the flesh-eating parasite screwworm.

Here in Central Texas and across the state officials are now preparing for an outbreak of the New World screwworm, a parasite currently plaguing Mexico and South America.

Screwworm is a parasitic fly that targets warm-blooded animals and has the potential to disrupt Texas’ $15 billion cattle industry.