With the presence of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. growing greater by the day, federal and Texas officials are ...

USDA launches a key initiative with a new sterile fly facility in Texas to combat the New World Screwworm and protect US ...

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who patrol border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also serve as defense against screwworm.

The latest threat to the southern border has wings and lays eggs that hatch into flesh-eating maggots that can kill people.

USDA is spending to keep the New World Screwworm (NWS) out of the U.S. “We are going even further and taking the most ...

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

USDA unveils a five-pronged plan with Tick Riders, detector dogs and a Texas sterile-fly facility to combat New World ...

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new ...

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed "plans to fight ...

The Texas Department of Agriculture continues to lead the fight against the threat of the New World Screwworm (NWS) by ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, New World screwworms are an invasive species that burrow fly larvae into ...