After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

The fly infects living mammals, including livestock, pets and humans. Untreated, it can lead to death. The U.S. previously ...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins provided an update on the USDA’s ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the New World ...

USDA will invest $21 million to expand a Mexico facility, aiming to double sterile fly production and strengthen efforts to ...

AgriLife Extension will host a webinar on New World screwworm on June 9 to provide more information to agricultural producers and the public.

The Tennessee State Veterinarian is warning livestock owners to keep an eye out for their animals after the New World Screwworm, or NWS, was detected off the border of Mexico. 6 News reporter Naomi ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today provided an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ongoing ...

Rollins also announced the USDA invested $21 million in renovating an existing fruit fly production facility in Metapa, ...

The Missouri Department of Agriculture dismissed recent false rumors about the New World Screwworm in the state. Here's why ...

Yesterday afternoon, Secretary Rollins held a call with her counterpart in Mexico, Secretary Berdegue, to discuss the ongoing ...

For the second time in under six months, the U.S. is closed to cattle, sheep and bison imports through ports of entry along the southern border. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the ...

On May 11, 2025 the U.S. suspended live animal imports from Mexico. This brought to a standstill the importation of feeder ...