The map shows the ports of entry affected by the U.S. Agriculture Department’s announcement and the approximate locations of ...

By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

Texas played a critical role in eradicating this pest from the United States in the 1960s and will do so again if the need ...

Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...

Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

A detection of the New World Screwworm closer to the United States will keep the ports closed to livestock from Mexico.

Understanding the New World screwworm blowfly and its behavior underscores why it is so dangerous to the livestock industry.

The Santa Teresa livestock crossing was set to open up July 21st after months of closure due to the New World Screwworm, a flesh eating parasite found in Mexico. But after a new case was found in the ...

New cases of screwworms on July 8 in Veracruz, Mexico has caused the U.S. to close southern borders to livestock imports.

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

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

Meanwhile, the USDA has rolled out plans for an $8.5 million New World screwworm (NWS) facility in Texas and is exploring ...