At least 30 people have been infected with a potentially deadly flesh eating parasite in Nicaragua as the previously ...

This identification aid will concentrate on third instar larvae. Both the Old World screwworm fly (OWSF) Chrysomya bezziana and the New World screwworm fly (NWSF) Cochliomyia hominovorax are major ...

Another case of New World screwworm was found in a Mexican cow south of the border. Despite that, USDA says it won’t limit ...

The New World screwworm fly was eradicated in the US in the mid-1960s, but a new sighting in southern Mexico has authorities in Texas on alert for a little insect that can do a lot of damage.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not restrict cattle imports from Mexico after another discovery of a damaging pest ...

Among farmers and ranchers, the New World screwworm fly ranks among the most reviled ... the pest has no qualms about targeting other warm-blooded species, occasionally burrowing into people ...

On Feb. 1, USDA’s APHIS announced the resumption of cattle and bison imports from Mexico under a new comprehensive protocol. With herd levels at a 74-year low and high beef prices, traders had ...

Cattle and bison imports from Mexico are scheduled to resume soon, according to a recent announcement by the United States ...

The New World screwworm, so named because it can burrow into an open wound like a screw driving into wood, is the larvae of an invasive fly, which deposits its larvae into an open wound.

A New World Screwworm, which was eradicated in the ... Signs of an infection include: The disease can be transmitted when a fly notices the odor of a wound or “natural opening on a live, warm ...