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 ...

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

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

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, ...

On November 22, 2024, the Chief Veterinary Officer of Mexico notified the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal ...

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 ...

Every week two small aeroplanes dump 15m sterile flies over the rainforest of the Darién Gap. But as the forest has degraded, the screwworm has spread. The factory must now produce flies to cover ...