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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 ...
Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who patrol border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also serve as defense against screwworm.
USDA is spending to keep the New World Screwworm (NWS) out of the U.S. “We are going even further and taking the most ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With the presence of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. growing greater by the day, federal and Texas officials are ...
Responding to calls by state lawmakers and the agricultural industry for immediate action to be taken to protect cattle and ...
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 ...