South Dakota’s state veterinarian says there’s no immediate threat from New World screwworm. Texas containment, animal ...

"We want to stop it," Livestock Producer and Buyer, Vic Choate, said. "And we will." Vic Choate is a livestock producer and ...

Pet owners in Illinois and elsewhere are advised to be mindful after the detection last month in Texas of a parasitic fly whose larvae feed off living tissue of warm-blooded animals. While there ...

With New World screwworm cases in Texas putting the livestock community on high alert, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ...

The parasite can infect dogs, cats, livestock and wildlife. Here’s where it came from, how it spreads and what experts ...

WASHINGTON - A flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm is raising concern as officials warn about the threat ...

It's now been more than a month since federal health officials first reported that a flesh-eating New World screwworm was ...

As New World screwworm continues moving north through Mexico and threatens livestock along the southern U.S. border, much of the conversation has focused on quarantines, sterile fly releases, and ...

State and federal officials are responding to a new case in Texas amid the ongoing threat of the New World screwworm to the United States and its cattle industry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Yes, you read that right. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given a green light to the larvae of Lucilia cuprina, commonly known as the Australian sheep blowfly, for use in maggot wound ...

Editor's take: The idea of cleaning human wounds with live maggots sounds like the sort of medieval medicine that should have died out somewhere around the invention of soap. But one day, you could be ...

Farmers were dreading it, health authorities were awaiting it, and the general populace had no real idea of its approach until the news was flooded with stories about it. The unwelcome screwworm had ...