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

U.S. Customs and Border Protection El Paso sector is warning about the threat of the New World Screwworm to the regional ...

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

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed “plans to fight ...

Officials say the screwworm has the potential to devastate the cattle industry, send beef prices soaring and kill wildlife.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight ...

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

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to combat the New World screwworm threat.

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.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight the flesh-eating ...

Governor Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are holding a news conference to discuss plans to fight back threats posed by the New World screwworm.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announces new steps to keep New World screwworm out of the U.S. while acknowledging that ...