Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

NCBA’s Woodall says the goal is complete eradication — not just from the U.S., but from Mexico and Central America, ...

"Certain drugs to treat screwworm infection are not licensed in the U.S., having been unnecessary for half a century." ...

A flesh-eating parasite known as New World Screwworm is moving closer and closer to the US border in Texas. The devastating ...

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

Screwworm larvae enter cows' wombs, developing under the skin and often causing death. Even if the parasite does not cross ...

To say the New World Screwworm is a nasty parasite would be an understatement. The flesh-eating scourge that tortures cattle ...

The president and CEO of R-CALF USA is requesting a federal investigation into a suspected false report that New World ...

New World Screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, is traveling north from Central ...

In parts of Central America, illegal ranching on protected lands has become a front for drug trafficking and money laundering ...

Screwworm outbreak in Mexico leads to six human cases and a U.S. livestock import ban, threatening public health and cattle ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz hope to fund an operation to kill the parasitic fly before too much damage is done.