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

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

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed "plans to fight ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, New World screwworms are an invasive species that burrow fly larvae into ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight the flesh-eating ...

USDA unveils a five-pronged plan with Tick Riders, detector dogs and a Texas sterile-fly facility to combat New World ...

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

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

Officials say the screwworm has the potential to devastate the cattle industry, send beef prices soaring and kill wildlife.

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