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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

Mexico-to-US cattle shipments, shut down since May, will start up again next week with “risk-based port re-openings," the ...