As a result, the region’s fight against the spread of the New World Screwworm (NWS) is expected to take a hit. Minister of ...

Signs of screwworm infection can include irritated or depressed behavior, loss of appetite, head shaking, smell of decaying ...

The USDA bans Mexican cattle imports after screwworm discovery, prompting Texas officials to warn about the parasite's threat ...

Fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot and ringworm, occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it.

Screwworms can devastate livestock herds. The discovery of a single screwworm infection among cattle in Mexico a few weeks ago has raised concerns that an infestation could happen in Texas ...

One of the ways the CDC has stepped up its surveillance of H5N1 infections in people is by asking state public health laboratories to perform additional testing on all patient samples that test ...

After the recent discovery of New World screwworm (NWS) infection in a cow located in Southern Mexico, the United States federal government has begun to take action to prevent NWS from entering the ...

The New World screwworm, a parasite native to Central and South America, lays eggs on live animals, causing maggots to eat the flesh and eventually causing an animal's death has been spotted in ...

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