The folks at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Animal Health Commission are hoping for the best and preparing ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...

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.

The New World screwworm, eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, could again pose a threat to Texas livestock, the beef ...