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Decades of screwworm vigilance have been undone in just two years. You only have to glance at a map to understand why the ...
The Tennessee State Veterinarian is warning livestock owners to keep an eye out for their animals after the New World ...
AgriLife Extension will host a webinar on New World screwworm on June 9 to provide more information to agricultural producers and the public.
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins provided an update on the USDA’s ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the New World ...
Rollins also announced the USDA invested $21 million in renovating an existing fruit fly production facility in Metapa, ...
EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - The screwworm, a pest likely remembered only by our grandparents, is making headlines again. With a proper name of New World Screwworm and scientifically known as Cochliomyia ...
USDA will invest $21 million to expand a Mexico facility, aiming to double sterile fly production and strengthen efforts to ...
U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz co-introduced a bill to build an American facility that would curb the reproduction of ...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today provided an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ongoing ...
Yesterday afternoon, Secretary Rollins held a call with her counterpart in Mexico, Secretary Berdegue, to discuss the ongoing ...
Last week, the United States halted all cattle trade with Mexico to stop the spread of a parasitic flesh-eating fly known as ...
A New World screwworm (NWS) outbreak in Mexico has raised alarms at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The impact on ...