The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association announced strong support for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to build a ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico ...

USDA and Mexican authorities have increased surveillance, detection, and eradication efforts, including: Establishing a ...

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they'll kill off a ...

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they’ll kill off a species of insect known for laying its flesh-eating larvae in the wounds ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison, and equines from ...

USDA releases billions of sterile flies from planes to fight deadly flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

Justin Smith of the Kansas Department of Agriculture talks about the New World Screwworm parasite and its northward expansion ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

The New World Screwworm (NWS), a parasitic fly once eradicated from North and Central America through decades of coordinated effort by governments and livestock producers, is making a troubling return ...