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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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