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

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

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

According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.

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

Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.

Key progress” has been made against the New World screwworm, the U.S. ag secretary says, adding that there has been no ...

Re-emergence of the New World Screwworm (NWS) has become a recent concern for American agriculture. As the fly moves closer ...

The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving northward in Mexico.

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

As ports of entry along the southern border are about to gradually reopen to cattle imports, Mexican authorities announced ...

Following a New World screwworm assessment by USDA staff in Mexico and ongoing conversations between Secretary Rollins and the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, USDA will start reopening the ports ...