Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...

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

Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.

Here in Central Texas and across the state officials are now preparing for an outbreak of the New World screwworm, a parasite ...

Texas officials ramp up efforts against the New World screwworm, launching a response team to safeguard animals and ...

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.

Re-emergence of the New World Screwworm (NWS) has become a recent concern for American agriculture. As the fly moves closer ...

Abbott directs the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks & Wildlife to form a joint response team to combat the New ...

As ports of entry along the southern border are about to gradually reopen to cattle imports, Mexican authorities announced ...

The United States and Mexico plan to reopen the U.S. border to Mexican cattle imports in July. U.S. agriculture officials had ...