A detection of the New World Screwworm closer to the United States will keep the ports closed to livestock from Mexico.

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

The map shows the ports of entry affected by the U.S. Agriculture Department’s announcement and the approximate locations of ...

Wyoming plastic surgeon Dr. Christopher Nicholas Stewart left two women disfigured and in agony after botching their ...

The image, the smell, the emotions: five cattle producers and veterinarians from around the world share their first-hand ...

The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday halted cattle shipments from Mexico to the United States over concerns of the New World screwworm parasite's rapid spread.

Texas played a critical role in eradicating this pest from the United States in the 1960s and will do so again if the need ...

The flesh-eating parasite was thought to have been eradicated but has made a gruesome comeback, devouring one woman's lungs ...

To combat an outbreak of flesh-eating New World screwworm flies in the US, the country is taking the threat to livestock ...

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying that a flesh-eating parasite has moved further ...

Most sheep and wool producers apply a preventative treatment at the same time each year, typically using a spray-on treatment ...