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

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

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

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight ...

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

State health officials in Texas have declared the state's measles outbreak over.  The New World screwworm, Cochliomyia ...

Responding to calls by state lawmakers and the agricultural industry for immediate action to be taken to protect cattle and ...

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 ...

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sounded the alarm, warning of the potential spread of the New World screwworm into the United States.