Cuts the department made to USAID included a program dedicated to preventing the spread of the screwworm across the U.S.-Mexico border.

If confirmed, it would be the fly's first breach of the US-Mexico border.

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 announced that it suspects that the the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas.

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 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.

Cuts the department made to USAID included a program dedicated to preventing the spread of the screwworm across the U.S.-Mexico border.

USDA has identified a second case of the flesh-eating screwworm fly in Texas on Saturday, just days after a first occurrence in a one-year-old calf

Screwworms are back thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump—and beef may get a lot more expensive.

DOGE 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.