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Local experts are warning of possible screwworm activity coming to the area. There have been reports of increased activity ...
The U.S. is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to build a factory to breed sterile flies to combat a flesh-eating ...
The United States has announced plans to build a $750 million facility in southern Texas to combat the threat of New World ...
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 United States’ suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra ...
State health officials in Texas have declared the state's measles outbreak over.  The New World screwworm, Cochliomyia ...
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 U.S. Department of Agriculture has sounded the alarm, warning of the potential spread of the New World screwworm into the United States.
USDA unveils a five-pronged plan with Tick Riders, detector dogs and a Texas sterile-fly facility to combat New World ...
The new facility will be constructed at Moore Air Force Base in Edinburg, Texas, which USDA described as an ideal location ...
The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts ...
The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging ...