The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

Key progress” has been made against the New World screwworm, the U.S. ag secretary says, adding that there has been no ...

The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving northward in Mexico.

Cattle imports into US resume after flesh-eating parasite fears - The United States and Mexico plan to reopen the U.S. border ...

The U.S. government announced plans Wednesday to build an $8.5 million fly-breeding facility near the US-Mexico border as ...

The USDA has said the flies have been detected as close as 700 miles from the U.S. border, and some U.S. agriculture and cattle industry officials have worried that if the migration isn’t ...

The parasitic fly targets warm-blooded animals and has the potential to disrupt Texas’ $15 billion cattle industry. RIGHT: A New World screwworm larvae sits at rest.

THE Nkone Cattle Breeders Association (NCBA) has revealed that the indigenous Nkone cattle offer a sustainable and commercially viable alternative for beef farmers grappling with rising input ...

The U.S. government on Wednesday released a five-prong policy initiative to stop the spread of New World screwworms in live cattle and other animal imports, including its plan to build an $8.5 ...

The US plans to open a fly factory in Texas to fight a flesh-eating parasite The New World screwworm fly’s appearance in southern Mexico late last year has worried agriculture and cattle ...