After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

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

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz hope to fund an operation to kill the parasitic fly before too much damage is done.

USDA will invest $21 million to expand a Mexico facility, aiming to double sterile fly production and strengthen efforts to ...

Mexico's New World Screwworm outbreak halts livestock imports at the southern border as US officials work to prevent the ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz co-introduced a bill to build an American facility that would curb the reproduction of ...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins provided an update on the USDA’s ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the New World ...

The fly infects living mammals, including livestock, pets and humans. Untreated, it can lead to death. The U.S. previously eradicated the New World screwworm in the 1960s.

The US Department of Agriculture has suspended the transport of live cattle, horses and bison through ports of entry along the border with Mexico for at least two weeks. It’s part of an effort to curb ...

Screwworm outbreak in Mexico leads to six human cases and a U.S. livestock import ban, threatening public health and cattle ...

Multiple efforts are underway to stop a parasitic fly from swarming Texas and the rest of the U.S. and wreaking havoc on the ...