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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn took to the floor Monday to address the growing New World screwworm threat and advocate for more ...
The New World screwworm is a fly larva that infests the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, including humans, that causes ...
The looming threat from the New World screwworm is disrupting beef markets and driving prices higher than initially forecast, ...
The United States and Mexico plan to reopen the U.S. border to Mexican cattle imports in July. U.S. agriculture officials had suspended imports in May due to concerns over the screwworm parasite ...
The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping ...
Alfredo Chavez, a cattle rancher and livestock technician, shows New World screwworm larvae removed from a cow at his ranch ...
Researchers pushed screwworms out of Texas by the 1970s. Now that they are on their way back, agriculture leaders and ...
The New World Screwworm is creeping north, threatening cattle in Mexico and the US. Fighting flies with flies has worked ...
The New World screwworm, an invasive, flesh-eating parasitic insect, is spreading from the south to terrorize farms across ...
Good tick and fly control is also crucial to reducing the bite wounds that could serve as entry points for screwworm. This ...
The deadly parasitic New World screwworm has been spotted less than 400 miles from the Southwest border and is threatening ...
A flesh-eating parasite nearly eradicated decades ago is headed for Texas, cattle producers warn, prompting urgent calls for ...