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

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped ...

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

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

State and federal agricultural leaders are making plans to combat a potentially devastating parasitic fly that they expect ...

The screw worm is one of four species that Prof Esvelt thinks would be ideal candidates for eradication through gene drives.

The US government will be opening a fly factory in Texas to mass produce millions of infertile flies as part of a ...

The facility will breed millions of sterile New World screwworm flies at Moore Air Base, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins ...

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

The New World screwworm, eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, could again pose a threat to Texas livestock, the beef ...

The new world screw worm, ... Thousands of cases of screw worm infection have been detected in cattle in Panama, even though it was declared screw worm-free in 2006.