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USDA announces new Texas facility to breed sterile New World screwworm flies as part of an effort to combat the flesh-eating ...
The US Secretary of Agriculture has announced ports will be closed to the livestock trade at the southern border after ...
Another pause in US imports of Mexican cattle over screwworm, job losses and tomato tariffs were topics of Sheinbaum's ...
The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies ...
The U.S. has shut its southern border to livestock imports again after a flesh-eating parasite was found further north in ...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday that the U.S. decision to halt cattle imports from Mexico again over the ...
New cases of screwworms on July 8 in Veracruz, Mexico has caused the U.S. to close southern borders to livestock imports.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on June 18 announced an $8.5 million sterile New World screwworm fly dispersal facility in south Texas and a five-pronged plan to enhance the U.S ...
The United States has suspended Mexican imports of live cattle, horses, and bison due to the continued and rapid northward spread of the New World Screwworm in Mexico, according to the United ...
With tail wagging, tongue out and ears perked, Hummer - a young mixed breed dog with a slick black coat - sits down in front of a sample of screwworm scent, promptly accepting praise and treats from ...
Not enough sterile flies are being dropped in Mexico to reverse New World screwworm’s northward spread, Mexico’s top agriculture official warned Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins last month ...
Mexico’s Health Ministry issued an epidemiological warning this month after the first human case of screwworm myiasis, or parasitic infestation, was confirmed on April 17 in a 77-year-old woman ...