Screwworm Flies and Drought Spell Tougher Times for Cattle Ranchers

Some Texans fear “the nightmares and the horrors” of a potential screwworm outbreak. Elsewhere, not enough grass to feed ...

A flesh-eating worm from the 1960s is re-invading the U.S. Are CA cattle at risk?

Officials recently detected the flesh-eating New World Screwworm in a calf born in Texas. The once-eradicated parasite could ...

Texas ranchers on edge after screwworm parasite detected in calf

The quiet Texas cattle town ​of La Pryor has become ground zero in the fight against screwworm after the first U.S. case ‌in ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

What to know about the New World screwworm fly and its U.S. reappearance

The New World screwworm fly is threatening the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry for the first time in more than a half ...
University of California, Davis

Media Experts on New World Screwworm

The U.S Department of Agriculture has confirmed a case of New World screwworm in Zavala County, Texas in a three-week old ...