On Nov. 25, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) held a meeting to discuss the U.S. response to the news ...

APHIS is working with partners in Mexico and Central America to stop the spread of NWS into the United States, the agency ...

Every week, without fail, specially-modified light aircraft take off from an air strip in Panama and head out over the jungle ...

New World screwworm was found in a cow near Mexico's border with Guatemala, prompting APHIS to intensify efforts to stop its ...

Already high feeder cattle futures jumped Monday and Tuesday. U.S. inventories of beef cattle are at all-time lows, and ...

On Friday, the APHIS announced that a New World Screwworm (NWS) was detected in Mexico, causing Mexican cattle imports to be ...

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has temporarily suspended imports of live animals originating from or ...

On Nov. 22, Mexico's Chief Veterinary Officer informed USDA about a confirmed case of New World screwworm (NWS) in Chiapas, ...

Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax, an insect whose larvae or maggots eat living tissue ...

New World screwworm (NWS; Cochliomyia hominivorax ... primarily through the release of sterile male flies. Female flies only ...

Worst plague of Florida cattle is a large bluish fly called the screwworm. The adult female ... If a female happens to mate with a sterile male, she will lay nothing but infertile eggs for the ...