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

Take note: President Donald Trump previously threatened in a Truth Social post to impose a 5% tariff on Mexico if it did not ...

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

Texas lawmakers heard conflicting reports on the state’s readiness to fight the New World Screwworm, which is approaching the ...

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

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 ...

Merck Animal Health, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA, on Dec. 4 announced the Food and Drug Administration ...

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

It's the northernmost active case of the flesh-eating parasite.

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

Although cases are closing in on the U.S., the New World screwworm isn’t likely to create outbreaks in Canadian livestock, ...

The National Milk Producers Federation participated in two stakeholder dialogues that were used to help inform USDA in ...