Alfredo Chavez, a cattle rancher and livestock technician, shows New World screwworm larvae removed from a cow at his ranch ...

The New World screwworm is a fly larva that infests the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, including humans, that causes ...

Researchers pushed screwworms out of Texas by the 1970s. Now that they are on their way back, agriculture leaders and ...

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 deadly parasitic New World screwworm has been spotted less than 400 miles from the Southwest border and is threatening ...

Calls for tougher actions to halt cattle trafficking are growing amid concerns over the spread of the screwworm parasite in ...

The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping ...

The New World screwworm, an invasive, flesh-eating parasitic insect, is spreading from the south to terrorize farms across ...

Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "The threat of the New World screwworm is real and knocking at our door. Impacts to the cattle ...

The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department of Agriculture to halt cattle shipments from Mexico to the United States.

The nation’s largest border crossing for livestock between the U.S. and Mexico — in Santa Teresa, New Mexico — will not reopen as planned Monday, and is indefinitely delayed after further detection ...

The Independent Beef Association of North Dakota (I-BAND) has formally reached out to our state veterinarians, urging them to support the indefinite closure of the U.S.–Mexico border to live cattle ...