A parasitic worm that feeds on the live tissue of animals is spreading throughout South and Central America.Now, the FDA is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COPEG is working to reverse the advance of the screw worm by re-establishing a barrier of sterile flies - Empaque Del Vuelo/COPEG ...

The United States has banned all livestock imports from Mexico due to the rapid spread of screw worm disease, which could lead to increased meat prices in the short term. The chair of the Chihuahua ...

[1] New Mexico officials prepare for possible New World Screw Worm outbreak – Officials say the parasitic ‘New World Screw Worm’ is getting closer to crossing the border, with the most recent ...

The three cases are from the 23 initially reported in December in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the state of Texas.

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — More cases of New World screwworm have been found in a Mexican border state. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said Thursday that eight new cases of the deadly ...

A reinfestation of New World screw worm is emerging in Central America and the parasite is already endemic in South America. New World screw worm Cochliomyia hominivorax is a parasitic fly larva that ...

An outbreak of the insidious ´screw worm´ fly in Yemen, is threatening livelihoods, in a country where rearing livestock is a traditional way of life. In recent weeks, a Ministerial delegation was at ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An insect, the New World Screwworm (NWS), is being described as one that could have a “devastating impact on livestock herds across the country.” The NWS, not actually a ...