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

The temporary measure occurred after Mexico notified the USDA it had detected a New World screwworm in a cow in Catazajá, ...

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

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

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that her administration is in talks with U.S. officials regarding a New World Screwworm outbreak. The case prompted the United States to temporarily halt ...

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

Mexico’s chief veterinary officer said they discovered the screwworm in a cow at an inspection checkpoint close to the border ...

This helps to avoid a re-infestation, and check the reproductive capability of the nematode parasites. Furthermore, Paecilomyces lilacinus also secretes enzymes which facilitate disruption of the ...

“I was already terrified of worms,” Ms. Nit said, sharing her fear of the infestation spreading further and impacting the village’s children. The sudden and unprecedented nature of this ...

The Restaurant within Carnew Mart, Carnew, Wicklow The restaurant at this mart was ordered to close on October 24 due to a rodent infestation in the main food preparation area. Inspectors noted ...

An outbreak of screwworm — a fly that infects the open wounds of warm-blooded animals — is the direct result of cattle smuggling through protected areas across Central America, conservation ...

Screwworm maggots can kill a full-grown steer ... every calf born in Florida was infested with screwworms, and total infestations of cattle averaged 35,000 per month. Since March, only 600 cases ...