USDA announces new Texas facility to breed sterile New World screwworm flies as part of an effort to combat the flesh-eating parasite threatening livestock near the US-Mexico border.

The facility will breed millions of sterile New World screwworm flies at Moore Air Base, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday.

A parasitic fly that devastated Texas livestock in the 1960s is spreading north through Central America and potentially ...

Another pause in US imports of Mexican cattle over screwworm, job losses and tomato tariffs were topics of Sheinbaum's ...

The US Secretary of Agriculture has announced ports will be closed to the livestock trade at the southern border after ...

Livestock trade with Mexico to resume after screwworm health scare, announced the USDA. Santa Teresa port to allow livestock transportation by July 21.

MEXICO CITY, May 13 (Reuters) - Mexico will tighten the flow of cattle from the south of the country to limit the potential spread of the screwworm, the nation's agriculture minister said on Tuesday.

Through the 1960s, Aja's family treated thousands of infection cases on their sheep and cattle herds. The parasite was finally eradicated from the U.S. and Mexico about 60 years ago, and contained ...

MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Reuters) - Mexico has been working to respond to a damaging pest called New World screwworm and is strengthening its efforts, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. U.S ...

Through the 1960s, Aja's family treated thousands of infection cases on their sheep and cattle herds. The parasite was finally eradicated from the U.S. and Mexico about 60 years ago, and contained ...