To say the New World Screwworm is a nasty parasite would be an understatement. The flesh-eating scourge that tortures cattle ...

The New World Screwworm (NWS, Cochliomyia hominivorax) is a parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere. It lays eggs in ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended livestock imports from Mexico to Texas to prevent the spread of the New World Screwworm (NWS).

The screwworm, a pest likely remembered only by our grandparents, is making headlines again. With a proper name of New World ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended livestock imports from Mexico to Texas to prevent the spread of the ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins held a May 27 call with her counterpart in Mexico, Secretary Julio Berdegué ...

The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific ...

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Mexican authorities are also enhancing surveillance, holding technical meetings, and ensuring animal movement is carefully managed.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Falling investment, slowing growth, and the changing whims of U.S. President Donald Trump have led ...

More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce ...

More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce ...

The cattle market was disrupted this week by rumors of a return of 24/7 trading and a spoofed notice of a New World Screwworm ...