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The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently suspended imports of cattle from Mexico, after new reports showed that a destructive pest called the New World Screwworm had moved north to the Mexican ...

They suspect that frequent exposure to meat-eating bacteria and other pathogens may ... the aggressive pathogen can eat away at living flesh. “If we could find the way that the beetles deal ...

Lawmakers are stepping up their efforts to keep the flesh-eating parasite out of the United States. “Very soon, people are going to know what a screwworm is because they can't barbecue on the ...

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The United States has suspended all animal imports from Mexico due to a parasitic fly that can produce flesh-eating maggots. New World screwworms are the cause of the indefinite suspension of ...

Fearing a resurgence of the New World Screwworm parasite in the US, the Department of Agriculture block livestock imports from Mexico ...

(NewsNation) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would be suspending all cattle, horse and bison imports from Mexico after a flesh-eating parasite known as a screwworm was detected.