The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The Trump administration plans to breed billions of flies to airdrop over Mexico and southern Texas in an effort to stamp out ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

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

Here in Central Texas and across the state officials are now preparing for an outbreak of the New World screwworm, a parasite currently plaguing Mexico and South America. While the screwworm, which ...

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

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

State and federal agricultural leaders are making plans to combat a potentially devastating parasitic fly that they expect will make its way into Texas, potentially affecting livestock and pets.

A resurgent livestock pest has been making a lot of headlines lately. The New World screwworm (NWS) was eradicated from the U.S. in the 1960’s, according to Extension educators at Texas A&M University ...

The U.S. government on Wednesday released a five-prong policy initiative to stop the spread of New World screwworms in live cattle and other animal imports, including its plan to build an $8.5 ...