By Cassandra Garrison TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) -On a scorching afternoon in the rural heartland outside Mexico's southern ...

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

The devastating pests have crossed Central America. Despite stepped-up efforts, there are not enough sterile flies to stop ...

Alfredo Chavez, a cattle rancher and livestock technician, shows New World screwworm larvae removed from a cow at his ranch in Cintalapa, Chiapas, Mexico, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, amid an infestation ...

Officials say the screwworm has the potential to devastate the cattle industry, send beef prices soaring and kill wildlife.

The New World screwworm is a fly larva that infests the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, including humans, that causes ...

The USDA has announced a new sterile fly breeding site in southern Texas to protect American cattle from the deadly New World ...

The BriefTexas and the federal government are committing $850 million to combat the new American screwworm fly, a parasitic ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, ...

Livestock trade with Mexico to resume after screwworm health scare, announced the USDA. Santa Teresa port to allow livestock transportation by July 21.

It was, in part, to keep the New World Screwworm from entering the U.S. It’s a tiny parasitic fly but it could have ...

Berdegué said the number of flies dispersed in Mexico has reached 100 million a week. Screwworm flies lay their eggs on live animals, and the larvae burrow into the flesh of the host.