The government cut funding for the New World screwworm monitoring program and then reportedly ignored ranchers warning the parasite was working its way to the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas.

The government cut funding for the New World screwworm monitoring program and then reportedly ignored ranchers warning the parasite was working its way to the U.S.

A widespread screwworm outbreak in Texas could cause $1.8 billion in economic losses, according to the USDA.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas

A case of flesh-eating New World screwworm has been detected in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. It is the first time this parasitic fly – whose…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it suspects that the the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it suspects that the the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas.

A case was confirmed in a calf in La Pryor, Texas, a town about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of the US-Mexico border - a blow to US cattle ranchers.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the case was in a 3-week-old calf in LaPryor, Texas, about 50 miles from the Mexico border

The flesh-eating larvae has threatened the nation's cattle industry

The case of New World screwworm was confirmed in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said late Wednesday.

A flesh-eating parasite that feeds on warm-blooded animals has been detected in the United States for the first time since 1966, exposing the nation's cattle herd to a serious new…

The pest was largely eradicated in the United States in the 1960s.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said USDA officials detected a screwworm on a three-week-old calf in Texas, near the Mexican border.

The US Department of Agriculture says New World screwworm has been detected in a Texas calf.

" ... 3-week-old bovine in Zavala County, Texas."

This was the first case of the parasite found in U.S. livestock since the 1960s

The New World screwworm fly is threatening the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry for the first time in more than a half century.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said there have been no other detections of the fly in the U.S., and officials were quick to say that while the fly’s larvae are a threat to…