The U.S. government plans to release billions of sterilized flies over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating pest ...

The Trump administration plans to breed billions of flies to airdrop over Mexico and southern Texas in an effort to stamp out the New World Screwworm (NWS). Why it matters: This highly destructive, ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico ...

There is already a fly factory in Panama, capable of breeding up to 117 million flies a week. But that is now considered inadequate by the US, which wants to quadruple production and has earmarked ...

USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly ...

The reopening begins with the Douglas, Arizona port, followed by Columbus and Santa Teresa in New Mexico, and later ports in Texas including Del Rio and Laredo. Each phase depends on risk assessments ...

Livestock trade with Mexico to resume after screwworm health scare, announced the USDA. Santa Teresa port to allow livestock transportation by July 21.

The New World Screwworm (NWS), a parasitic fly once eradicated from North and Central America through decades of coordinated effort by governments and livestock producers, is making a troubling return ...

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