USDA is spending to keep the New World Screwworm (NWS) out of the U.S. “We are going even further and taking the most ...

With the presence of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. growing greater by the day, federal and Texas officials are ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who patrol border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also serve as defense against screwworm.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced Friday what she calls one of the largest initiatives to combat the New World screwworm. The announcement comes after USDA officials issued a ...

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new ...

Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the ...

Belize has recorded its first confirmed human case of New World Screwworm (NWS) since its re-emergence in the country in ...

Food safety is a top concern driving U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to combat the threat of New World screwworm (NWS), a pest that is ...

The USDA invests $750 million in a facility in Edinburg, Texas, to combat the New World screwworm, protecting U.S. livestock ...

Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced an aggressive initiative to combat the New World Screwworm ...

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...

It was, in part, to keep the New World Screwworm from entering the U.S. It’s a tiny parasitic fly but it could have ...