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

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

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

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

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became authorized Tuesday to allow the use of animal drugs to treat or prevent ...

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

State health officials in Texas have declared the state's measles outbreak over.  The New World screwworm, Cochliomyia ...

A deadly parasitic fly, the NWS is believed to be 370 miles south, flying north through Mexico from Central America.

Food safety is a top concern driving U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to combat the threat of New World screwworm (NWS), a pest that is ...

Emergency use authorizations will give farmers and veterinarians quicker access to resources to protect animals and the food ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sounded the alarm, warning of the potential spread of the New World screwworm into the United States.

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 ...