The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) has shut down animal imports at the southern border following an outbreak of a deadly flesh-eating parasite, with concerns of the return of the eradicated pest ...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on June 18 announced an $8.5 million sterile New World screwworm fly dispersal facility in south Texas and a five-pronged plan to enhance the U.S.
New World screwworm detections continue an earlier contained case roughly 70 miles from Texas and a later “northernmost ...
HIDALGO COUNTY, Texas (KRGV) — Several state officials gathered in Edinburg to announce a plan to prevent the screwworm outbreak in Mexico from reaching the country. During a news conference, ...
Most recent NWS case identified in a six-day-old calf in the state of Tamaulipas, approximately 197 miles from the ...
Multiple departments in the Trump administration are working to combat the proliferation of a flesh-eating parasite quickly spreading northward through Central America and threatening the United ...
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Screwworm threat returns to U.S.: Why it matters
In 2025, the United States faced a series of reminders that the security of our food supply depends on public health systems ...
Just a few hundred miles from our southern border, a flesh-eating parasite has been detected in Mexico, putting America’s farmers and ranchers on watch. The New World screwworm is a parasitic fly that ...
The Darién Gap, long a perilous route for millions of migrants traveling north toward the United States, has also become a pathway for the northward spread of the New World screwworm—a parasitic fly ...
If you started ranching within the last five decades, it’s unlikely that you’ve seen a case of New World screwworm because the deadly parasite was largely eradicated from the United States in 1966 and ...
New World screwworm larva close up, and the mouth hooks they use to eat living flesh. The last time the New World screwworm invaded the U.S., it devastated livestock and required a decades-long ...
Following Mexico's recent confirmation of a New World screwworm case less than 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is on high alert. Mexico’s National Service of ...
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