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 ...

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

Greg Abbott directed two agencies to assemble a response team to combat the New World screwworm, which poses a serious threat ...

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

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

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

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 U.S. and Mexico will gradually restart cattle imports again after fears of a northward spread of the screwworm.

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

The New World screwworm, eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, could again pose a threat to Texas livestock, the beef ...