U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced a plan to enhance the agency's ability to detect, control ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Abbott directs the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks & Wildlife to form a joint response team to combat the New ...

The New World screwworm parasite has been detected in Mexico, prompting the U.S. Agriculture Department to launch an $8.5 ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - In order to combat the spread of the New World screwworm, Governor Greg Abbott has established a ...

A dangerous livestock pest, the New World screwworm, has resurfaced in Central America, prompting a U.S. livestock import ban ...

Mexico and the United States said they would gradually reopen the United States border to cattle imports from Mexico in July ...