USDA launches a key initiative with a new sterile fly facility in Texas to combat the New World Screwworm and protect US ...

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts ...

With the presence of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. growing greater by the day, federal and Texas officials are ...

USDA unveils a five-pronged plan with Tick Riders, detector dogs and a Texas sterile-fly facility to combat New World ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who patrol border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also serve as defense against screwworm.

The latest threat to the southern border has wings and lays eggs that hatch into flesh-eating maggots that can kill people.

Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the ...

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new ...

USDA is spending to keep the New World Screwworm (NWS) out of the U.S. “We are going even further and taking the most ...

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed "plans to fight ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, New World screwworms are an invasive species that burrow fly larvae into ...