These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...
Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration in a preemptive response to the potential spread of the New World ...
Department of Agriculture will open a facility ​in Texas by the end of ‌next year that produces sterile flies intended to ‌fight the flesh-eating parasite New World screwworm, Secretary Brooke ...
The center, which will disperse sterile flies, is part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite from coming into ...
The first facility in decades to disperse sterile New World screwworm (NWS) flies from the United States opened Monday in ...
A New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, was discovered just south of the Texas border, raising alarms among cattle growers and ag officials. The fly lays eggs in cattle and other warm-blooded ...