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The U.S. Department of Agriculture indefinitely halted U.S. cattle imports from Mexico last month in a bid to keep out the ...
Two Guatemalan pilots and a Mexican agronomist engineer have died after their plane crashed in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala as they freed sterile flies meant to stop the spread of ...
An investigation is underway after rumors began swirling about New World Screwworm being found in Missouri, according to the ...
Entomologists got rid of screwworms by using nuclear radiation to sterilize millions of male screwworms in a lab, which were ...
After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.
An investigation is underway into the false report that New World screwworm was detected in Missouri. Missouri State Attorney ...
Having an infestation of screwworms would impact Texas as well as the rest of the U.S. With the potential for a number of ...
NWS is a deadly parasitic infection that can "kill a full-grown cow within one to two weeks," said NPR. When affected, the ...
NCBA’s Woodall says the goal is complete eradication — not just from the U.S., but from Mexico and Central America, ...
In response to the spread within 700 miles of the Texas border, Washington halted cattle imports from Mexico in May. But what ...
In May, the Secretary of Agriculture suspended live cattle, horses, and bison through U.S. southern border ports of entry due to the rapid northward spread of New World Screwworms in Mexico. Secretary ...
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association President Carl Ray Polk Jr. today issued the following statement in support of the New World Screwworm Preparedness Act of 2025: “The ...