These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

Parasitic flesh eating fly moves closer to Texas ...

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration in a preemptive response to the potential spread of the New World ...

Texas issued a disaster declaration over the screwworm. It's in Mexico and not in Texas yet. Cheryl Mercedes explains why you ...

The disaster declaration is because of the new world screwworm and though it's not in Texas, it's close and could affect food ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled the new facility on a former Air Force base ...

New world screwworm cases are proliferating in a Mexican state that borders Texas, with the pest having escaped containment ...

Texas will not get screwed by the flesh-eating parasite known as the screwworm — with Gov. Greg Abbott declaring a preemptive disaster declaration before the devastating organism even gets to the Lone ...

The CDC reports that as of February 10, 2026, these countries have reported more than 152,000 NWS cases in animals and over 1,300 cases in people.

CHICAGO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will open a facility in Texas by the end of next year that ...

A minor injury during a holiday trip has kept 62-year-old Brian Roush in the hospital since the beginning of the year.