The U.S. typically imports over a million cattle from Mexico every year. The import suspension will likely contribute to ...

New World Screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, is traveling north from Central ...

More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce ...

A small, pale maggot about a half-inch long could cost New Mexico cattle ranchers greatly if it gets back into the country. One of the state's senators introduced new legislation to combat the New ...

The US has fought to keep the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae "eat animals alive," out of North America ...

To say the New World Screwworm is a nasty parasite would be an understatement. The flesh-eating scourge that tortures cattle ...

The New World Screwworm (NWS, Cochliomyia hominivorax) is a parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere. It lays eggs in ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended livestock imports from Mexico to Texas to prevent the spread of the New World Screwworm (NWS).

The screwworm, a pest likely remembered only by our grandparents, is making headlines again. With a proper name of New World ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended livestock imports from Mexico to Texas to prevent the spread of the ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins held a May 27 call with her counterpart in Mexico, Secretary Julio Berdegué ...

The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific ...