The United States has paused those exports intermittently over the past year to protect its cattle herds from the New World ...

On Dec. 3, 2025, the Texas Department of Agriculture reported in a press release that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had ...

The flesh-eating fly larvae, which have been detected in Mexico, were declared eradicated from Texas in the 1960s.

There's hope for U.S. cattle ranchers in the battle to stop the spread of screwworm at a time of decimated herds with the FDA approving a new Merck treatment.

APHIS confirms a New World screwworm case in a 22-month-old bovine transported from Veracruz to a feedlot in Nuevo León.

New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia hominivorax) is once again an active threat in the Americas. Cases in Mexico have risen and detections are approaching the US border, while federal agencies and ...

Researchers are trapping and tracking the New World screwworm to detect it early before it threatens livestock. The previous ...

US Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed a new case of New World screwworm (NWS) approximately 120 miles south of the ...

The New World screwworm in Mexico has prompted an almost year-long blockade on imported cattle and disrupted domestic ...

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MEXICO CITY >> A confirmed case of an animal infected with the flesh-eating screwworm parasite in Mexico’s northern Nuevo Leon state near the U.S. border was immediately treated to prevent a further ...