The United States government is dropping $8.5 million to build a factory in Texas that will mass-produced infertile New World Screwworm (NWS) flies, with the sole mission of eradicating a flesh ...

The parasite, which eats living flesh, was recently detected about 700 miles from the U.S. border in Mexico and has killed livestock and even infected humans.

It screws or bores into the flesh of our cattle and, in essence, eats the animal from the inside out. It is a horrific parasite. SIMON: And if left untreated, the animal can die within a week.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. -- The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.