Texas officials ramp up efforts against the New World screwworm, launching a response team to safeguard animals and ...

Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...

According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.

Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

Re-emergence of the New World Screwworm (NWS) has become a recent concern for American agriculture. As the fly moves closer ...

Abbott directs the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks & Wildlife to form a joint response team to combat the New ...

The New World screwworm parasite has been detected in Mexico, prompting the U.S. Agriculture Department to launch an $8.5 million sterile fly production facility in South Texas to prevent an ...

In Central Texas and across the state, officials are preparing for an outbreak of the New World screwworm, a parasite ...

It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...