Federal and Texas leaders have announced an unprecedented $850 million plan, including a new sterile fly facility in Edinburg to stop New world screwworm.

EDINBURG, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday announced a new $750 million facility to sterilize New World screwworm ...

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, also now will serve as the first line of defense against screwworm.

Texas leaders are expected to discuss plans to fight the New World screwworm during a Friday press conference in Austin.

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new ...

NWS is a devastating pest, the USDA said. When NWS fly larvae (maggots) burrow into the flesh of a living animal, they cause ...

The plan signals increasing worries about the risk of screwworm, a parasitic fly that eats livestock and wildlife alive, to ...

In a joint press conference with Governor Greg Abbott at the Texas State Capital in Austin, United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins said, “We are doing everything we can to stop it” ...

Texas set to home a $750-million factory which breeds flies to stop flesh-eating cattle parasite - The U.S. plans to build a ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, ...