A flesh-eating insect has been detected in South Texas, according to a social media post from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, prompting concerns about the spread of the parasite. In a post on X, ...

New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on living flesh rather than dead tissue, has re-established itself in ...

Fewer viable offspring are produced, which can gradually suppress the destructive population.

The New World screwworm has returned to the United States for the first time in six decades, breaching the Texas border despite months of federal prevention efforts. Two confirmed cases in South Texas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While we all breathed a little easier thinking that this recurrence appeared to be strictly a farming issue located hundreds of ...

For the first time in a year, the U.S.-Mexico border partly reopened to cattle imports following a screwworm infestation ...

A rancher arrives for a news conference with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins at the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory in Kerrville, Texas, Monday, June 8, 2026.

The number of deaths in the current Ebola epidemic in the DRC has now topped 1,000, and the number of confirmed cases is around 2500. Experts are calling for more funding to help tackle the crisis as ...