On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed “plans to fight back against threats posed by the New World screwworm.” ...

Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the U.S. Agriculture Secretary met on Friday to announce steps to battle an invasive species that ...

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott will host a press conference alongside U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to ...

A deadly parasitic fly, the NWS is believed to be 370 miles south, flying north through Mexico from Central America.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins addressed the threat of the New World Screwworm to livestock, pets, people and the economy. Follow updates on this developin ...