NCBA’s Woodall says the goal is complete eradication — not just from the U.S., but from Mexico and Central America, ultimately pushing the fly back to its original range in South America.

Mexico's New World Screwworm outbreak halts livestock imports at the southern border as US officials work to prevent the parasitic fly from spreading to American animals.

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

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

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

NWS is a deadly parasitic infection that can "kill a full-grown cow within one to two weeks," said NPR. When affected, the ...

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

While the fly larvae in the open wound is disturbing enough, the infection they cause is even more so. The flies cause myiasis, an infection of flesh-eating maggots that burrow into the skin of ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz hope to fund an operation to kill the parasitic fly before too much damage is done.

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