A USDA-funded project will use samples from the outbreak in Honduras to track how New World screwworm spreads and whether it could become resistant to the drugs used to control it. Researchers at Texas A&M University are planning what…
Doctors treating a 71-year-old farmer discovered 11 parasitic worms in his eye, including females that were already producing larvae. The farmer spent agonizing months bent over, feeling like something was stuck in his eyes. When ophthalmologists finally took a look, they…
White House border official Tom Homan told reporters on Thursday that a massive data breach at the Department of Homeland Security could put thousands of officers whose identities were made public at greater risk. A “hacktivist” group on Wednesday published…
New World screwworm was found in Arizona for the first time, as cases of the deadly parasite threatening the US cattle herd spread west into a third state. The US Department of Agriculture confirmed the infection late Wednesday in a…
The Arizona Department of Agriculture says more cases of the New World screwworm, known as cochliomyia hominivorax, have been identified in southwestern New Mexico — roughly 10 miles east of Arizona. The potentially-deadly, flesh-eating parasite burrows into the flesh of cows, horses…
The confirmation marks the state's first case for New World screwworm, which is known for infesting livestock, pets and wildlife. Arizona agricultural officials confirmed the state’s first case of New World screwworm on Wednesday, identifying the parasitic infestation in a…
(Bloomberg) -- New World screwworm was found in Arizona for the first time, detected in a dog, as cases of the deadly parasite accelerate. The US Department of Agriculture confirmed the infection late Wednesday in a dog in Cochise County, Arizona.
Much of the Las Cruces area is now considered part of an "infested zone" after state and federal agriculture officials confirmed New World screwworm cases in a sheep on the New Mexico State University campus and a cow at an…
A pinned specimen of a full-grown New World screwworm fly. (Image via Texas A&M) New Mexico agriculture officials on Tuesday announced two more confirmed cases of New World screwworm, and a new infested zone in Las Cruces. The two cases…
The first detection of the flesh-eating parasite was confirmed on October 21 It was discovered in an infested elk in Pecos County, Texas, and was brought to the APHIS' attention after a hunter harvested the animal. NWS is a parasitic fly…
The New World screwworm: its spread in livestock from Mexico into the US, human cases, sterile-fly releases and border controls.
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