The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became authorized on Tuesday to allow the use of animal drugs to treat or prevent infestations caused by the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite ...

There are currently no FDA-approved drugs for screwworm in the United States. The emergency use authorization allows the use ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a declaration on Aug. 19 allowing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for animal ...

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

Belize has recorded its first confirmed human case of New World Screwworm (NWS) since its re-emergence in the country in ...

A flesh-eating parasite nearly eradicated decades ago is headed for Texas, cattle producers warn, prompting urgent calls for ...

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

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 ...

At Mahr's ranch outside Tuxtla Gutierrez, a worker lassos a young cow. The animal bucks as it is guided over to Mahr, who is ...

Responding to calls by state lawmakers and the agricultural industry for immediate action to be taken to protect cattle and ...

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