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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Texas Department of Agriculture continues to lead the fight against the threat of the New World Screwworm (NWS) by ...