Secretary Rollins takes decisive action and shuts down U.S. Southern border ports to livestock trade due to further northward ...

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

The folks at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Animal Health Commission are hoping for the best and preparing ...

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. The main threat to livestock stems not from the adult fly, but its larvae.

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

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

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

The USDA describes the New World Screwworm as a metallic green-blue fly with large orange eyes, about twice the size of a common house fly. NWS do not bite animals and their damage comes from laying ...

Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

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