USDA is spending to keep the New World Screwworm (NWS) out of the U.S. “We are going even further and taking the most ...

The USDA plan comes alongside a monthslong shutdown of the Mexico-U.S. border for cattle. The shutdown has affected Mexican ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins has announced the largest initiative yet in the U.S. Department of ...

At Mahr's ranch outside Tuxtla Gutierrez, a worker lassos a young cow. The animal bucks as it is guided over to Mahr, who is ...

U.S. health officials gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to quickly authorize veterinarians and farmers to treat ...

HHS Issues Emergency Authorization for Animal Drugs as Federal Agencies Join Forces Against Pest The Trump administration on ...

Multiple departments in the Trump administration are working to combat the proliferation of a flesh-eating parasite quickly spreading northward through Central America and threatening the United ...

Livestock trade with Mexico to resume after screwworm health scare, announced the USDA. Santa Teresa port to allow livestock transportation by July 21.

Alfredo Chavez, cattle rancher and livestock technician, shows New World screwworm larvae removed from a cow at his ranch in Cintalapa, Chiapas, Mexico, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, amid an ...

Mexico confirmed its first human case in April in a 77-year-old woman, who was treated with antibiotics and is stable. Screwworm was declared gone from the United States in 1966, but outbreaks ...

Berdegué said the number of flies dispersed in Mexico has reached 100 million a week. Screwworm flies lay their eggs on live animals, and the larvae burrow into the flesh of the host.

Mexico’s Health Ministry issued an epidemiological warning this month after the first human case of screwworm myiasis, or parasitic infestation, was confirmed on April 17 in a 77-year-old woman ...