The United States has paused those exports intermittently over the past year to protect its cattle herds from the New World ...

The flesh-eating fly larvae, which have been detected in Mexico, were declared eradicated from Texas in the 1960s.

On Dec. 3, 2025, the Texas Department of Agriculture reported in a press release that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had ...

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and the Texas Department of Agriculture recently hosted agricultural and ...

New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia hominivorax) is once again an active threat in the Americas. Cases in Mexico have risen and detections are approaching the US border, while federal agencies and ...

APHIS confirms a New World screwworm case in a 22-month-old bovine transported from Veracruz to a feedlot in Nuevo León.

The New World screwworm in Mexico has prompted an almost year-long blockade on imported cattle and disrupted domestic ...

US Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed a new case of New World screwworm (NWS) approximately 120 miles south of the ...

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Mexico activated emergency controls Monday after detecting a new case of New World screwworm in cattle in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon state, the closest case to the U.S. border since the ...

MEXICO CITY >> A confirmed case of an animal infected with the flesh-eating screwworm parasite in Mexico’s northern Nuevo Leon state near the U.S. border was immediately treated to prevent a further ...