The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

Livestock trade with Mexico to resume after screwworm health scare, announced the USDA. Santa Teresa port to allow livestock ...

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USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly factory planned for 2026.

As ports of entry along the southern border are about to gradually reopen to cattle imports, Mexican authorities announced ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

There is already a fly factory in Panama, capable of breeding up to 117 million flies a week. But that is now considered inadequate by the US, which wants to quadruple production and has earmarked ...

In Central Texas and across the state, officials are preparing for an outbreak of the New World screwworm, a parasite ...