The USDA will reopen Mexico livestock ports in phases starting July 7 after an 8-week closure due to a New World Screwworm threat.

Texas agencies are ganging up on a bad, bad worm. According to a release, the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the ...

The larva burrows into the animal’s flesh like a screw, causing severe damage. “We don’t want the worm to get to our ranch, into our cattle and threatening our investments — what we have in genetics,” ...

A parasitic fly that devastated Texas livestock in the 1960s is spreading north through Central America and potentially ...

Texas officials ramp up efforts against the New World screwworm, launching a response team to safeguard animals and ...

USDA launches an $8.5 million facility in South Texas to stop the deadly new world screwworm fly and protect U.S. livestock.

According to a release, the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will team up to combat the ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins launched an $8.5 million sterile New World screwworm (NWS) fly dispersal facility in South Texas and announced a sweeping five-pronged plan to enhance ...

With the flesh-eating screwworm inching toward Texas, the state will commission a team to fight the parasitic fly and protect ...

The New World screwworm is posing a serious threat to Texas livestock, the beef industry, and the broader state economy.

Recently, however, the severe human consequences of the screw worm have been apparent at the central Dr Mario Catarino Rivas ...