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 ...

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

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced a plan to enhance the agency's ability to detect, control and eliminate the New World screwworm, including an $8.5 million fly ...

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

Imports of livestock from Mexico will resume in phases starting next week after a ban in May at ports of entry because of ...

Livestock trade with Mexico to resume after screwworm health scare, announced the USDA. Santa Teresa port to allow livestock ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Monday a phased reopening of cattle, bison and equine imports from Mexico ...

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

It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...

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

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