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With no U.S. cases yet, AgriLife's upcoming session will highlight crucial screwworm prevention strategies for ranchers.
An investigation is underway after rumors began swirling about New World Screwworm being found in Missouri, according to the ...
Missouri authorities are investigating a fake press release about the damaging livestock pest New World screwworm that ...
After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.
Entomologists got rid of screwworms by using nuclear radiation to sterilize millions of male screwworms in a lab, which were ...
Having an infestation of screwworms would impact Texas as well as the rest of the U.S. With the potential for a number of ...
"Certain drugs to treat screwworm infection are not licensed in the U.S., having been unnecessary for half a century." ...
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 ...
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 sc ...
Screwworm outbreak in Mexico leads to six human cases and a U.S. livestock import ban, threatening public health and cattle ...
An investigation is underway into the false report that New World screwworm was detected in Missouri. Missouri State Attorney ...
NCBA’s Woodall says the goal is complete eradication — not just from the U.S., but from Mexico and Central America, ...