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

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

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

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

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

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

Secretary Rollins takes decisive action and shuts down U.S. Southern border ports to livestock trade due to further northward ...

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 ...

The U.S. has shut its southern border to livestock imports again after a flesh-eating parasite was found further north in ...

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

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 ...