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

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 ...

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

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight the flesh-eating ...

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

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

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

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...

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