The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has temporarily paused Mexican cattle imports to the U.S. over fears of screwworm infections. On ...

The U.S. has blocked imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through southern border ports following the resurgence in Mexico of the New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly that infects animals and ...

Kansas public health officials are advising providers to be on the lookout for humans infected with flesh-eating maggots of the New World screwworm. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

The United States has suspended all animal imports from Mexico due to a parasitic fly that can produce flesh-eating maggots. New World screwworms are the cause of the indefinite suspension of animal ...

The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announces a shift in New World screwworm sterile fly dispersal efforts into Texas to stop the northern spread ...

“The stench…it’s like roadkill stewed in infection,” explains Jose Santiago Gallardo Espinosa, a cattle producer from Chiriqui, Panama, describing an animal that has been infected with New World ...

In Sabinas Hidalgo, Mexico, new cases of New World screwworm , or NWS, have been confirmed by Mexico’s National Service of ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert to clinicians Tuesday, warning that the savage, flesh ...

Kansas health officials have alerted providers about the potential for human cases of New World screwworm. New World screwworm maggots burrow into and feed on the living flesh of animals and humans.