Two Guatemalan pilots and a Mexican agronomist engineer have died after their plane crashed in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala as they freed sterile flies meant to stop the spread of sc ...

A small, pale maggot about a half-inch long could cost New Mexico cattle ranchers greatly if it gets back into the country. One of the state's senators introduced new legislation to combat the New ...

USDA will invest $21 million to expand a Mexico facility, aiming to double sterile fly production and strengthen efforts to ...

The latest halt in cattle imports via the U.S.-Mexico border comes only months after imports were stopped due to the same ...

The U.S. subsequently suspended live-cattle imports from Mexico. After this latest news broke, I spoke with Wayne Cockrell, a Texas rancher who fears the screwworm’s return to Texas is now a ...

The New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, is spreading northward through Mexico, posing a threat to U.S. livestock. The USDA has suspended live cattle, horse, and bison imports from Mexico ...

MEXICO CITY (AP ... the border with Guatemala as they freed sterile flies meant to stop the spread of screwworm in cattle. Mexico’s Agriculture Ministry said in a statement that the Guatemalan ...

Even before the trade war, a prolonged drought, rising inflation and a screwworm parasite outbreak disrupted much of the cattle industry along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bustillo calls it “the most ...

To protect the U.S. from a new threat posed by an old foe, the New World Screwworm (NWS), the U.S.-Mexico border was closed on May 11 to cattle, bison, and horses from Mexico. This pest was eradicated ...

bison and horse imports from Mexico after reports that a parasitic fly is spreading through herds. The fly, known as the New World screwworm, can spread quickly through livestock herds and it is ...

“The Mexican government has been working on all fronts from the very first moment we were alerted to the screwworm.” The US had shut down the border for live animal trade from Mexico in ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has temporarily halted the import of live cattle, horses and bison from Mexico. The move aims to stop the spread of New World screwworm, a dangerous flesh ...