Screwworms Are Back. Here’s How We Eliminated Them the First Time: Screwworms used plagued the livestock industry for decades

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

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 USDA said the only animal affected was a 3-week-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, after larvae were identified in its umbilical area.

Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screw-worm fly, or screw-worm for short, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the…

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.

With the case confirmed, it is the fly's first breach of the US-Mexico border.

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

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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 parasitic fly whose larvae feasts on living flesh has been confirmed in cattle in south Texas, years after it was deemed eradicated in the country.

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.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating screwworm fly in the United States in 60 years, threatening livestock.

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

The parasitic fly has resurged throughout the Americas since 2023.

This marks the first case of the New World screwworm in U.S. livestock since the parasite was eliminated in the country in the 1960s