Mexico's New World Screwworm outbreak halts livestock imports at the southern border as US officials work to prevent the ...

Parasitic larvae from flies known as New World screwworm are infesting cattle in Mexico, and officials are racing to slow ...

The U.S. typically imports over a million cattle from Mexico every year. The import suspension will likely contribute to ...

What makes the larvae of this fly peculiar and deadly is that it feeds on the tissue of living animals rather than dead ones ...

To say the New World Screwworm is a nasty parasite would be an understatement. The flesh-eating scourge that tortures cattle ...

Although no Texas cases had been reported as of Tuesday, Johnson County Commissioner Larry Woolley warned of a potential screwworm fly infestation in mid to late summer. In May, the U.S. Department of ...

Imports of livestock from the southern border have been banned due to the spread of a flesh-eating pest in Mexico, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Sunday.

eating the living flesh. After about seven days of feeding, the larvae drop to the ground, burrow into the soil and pupate, becoming an adult screwworm, according to the USDA. Flies emerge from ...

A parasite, the New World Screwworm, is actually a fly. Female screwworm flies lay eggs in wounds or body openings of mammals, including cows, deer, birds, pets, and even humans, that can lead to ...

Congress has found a rare point of unity: stopping U.S. cattle from getting swarmed by flesh-eating flies coming from Mexico. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing forward the STOP Screwworms ...

While the flies themselves are found in forests and ... The eggs then hatch into larvae (maggots) that burrow into the flesh, causing potentially deadly damage. An outbreak in Mexico has led ...

New World Screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, is traveling north from Central ...