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"Certain drugs to treat screwworm infection are not licensed in the U.S., having been unnecessary for half a century." ...
Screwworm outbreak in Mexico leads to six human cases and a U.S. livestock import ban, threatening public health and cattle ...
After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.
NCBA’s Woodall says the goal is complete eradication — not just from the U.S., but from Mexico and Central America, ...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today provided an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ongoing ...
USDA will invest $21 million to expand a Mexico facility, aiming to double sterile fly production and strengthen efforts to ...
A small, pale maggot about a half-inch long could cost New Mexico cattle ranchers greatly if it gets back into the country. One of the state's senators introduced new legislation to combat the New ...
Rollins also announced the USDA invested $21 million in renovating an existing fruit fly production facility in Metapa, ...
Having an infestation of screwworms would impact Texas as well as the rest of the U.S. With the potential for a number of risks, U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are hoping to fund an operation ...
In May, the Secretary of Agriculture suspended live cattle, horses, and bison through U.S. southern border ports of entry due ...
The parasite has devastated thousands south of the U.S. A recent northward surge in cases triggered emergency measures from ...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on May 12 described as “unfair” the decision by the Trump administration to suspend ...