The U.S. will run much the same playbook as it did starting in the 1950s: mass-produce sterile male screwworms and release ...

The flies pose a threat the state's $17 billion cattle industry and can infest any warm-blooded animals, including wildlife ...

Some Texans fear “the nightmares and the horrors” of a potential screwworm outbreak. Elsewhere, not enough grass to feed ...

A second case of the flesh-eating screwworm ​parasite was confirmed in Texas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on ‌Friday ...

Officials recently detected the flesh-eating New World Screwworm in a calf born in Texas. The once-eradicated parasite could ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said a second case in Zavala County was detected on a ranch about 5 miles from the first.

The new case in Zavala County was detected on a ranch about 5 miles from the first positive case of screwworm in Texas.

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