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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced a plan to enhance the agency's ability to detect, control ...
Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...
Mexico-to-US cattle shipments, shut down since May, will start up again next week with “risk-based port re-openings," the ...
Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.
Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...
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.
The USDA will release sterile New World screwworm male flies into Mexico from a deactivated Air Force base in south Texas, ...
Texas officials ramp up efforts against the New World screwworm, launching a response team to safeguard animals and ...
USDA launches an $8.5 million facility in South Texas to stop the deadly new world screwworm fly and protect U.S. livestock.