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Commissioners passed a resolution on June 9, encouraging state and national action to prevent the reintroduction of the New ...
The New World screwworm has come back with a vengeance in Mexico. This time, however, it is not only animals targeted, but people as well.
Although no Texas cases had been reported as of Tuesday, Johnson County Commissioner Larry Woolley warned of a potential screwworm fly infestation in mid to late summer. In May, the U.S. Department of ...
Parasitic larvae from flies known as New World screwworm are infesting cattle in Mexico, and officials are racing to slow ...
By Seth Millstein for Sentient. Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for Oklahoma News Service reporting for the ...
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service announced it will host a webinar Monday afternoon to provide more information to agricultural producers and communities on the New World screwworm, a ...
In this opinion piece, GOP Reps. Frank Lucas and Tony Gonzales argue that establishment of a new sterile fly production ...
A deepening crisis is unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border as parasitic larvae from New World screwworm flies infest cattle ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture last month stopped the movement of cows, horses and bison between Mexico and the U.S.
What makes the larvae of this fly peculiar and deadly is that it feeds on the tissue of living animals rather than dead ones through small cuts found on their flesh.
President Claudia Sheinbaum met with US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau in Mexico City on Wednesday.
In a formal letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), R-CALF USA’s Animal Health Committee called for swift approval to add ivermectin ...