The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has temporarily paused Mexican cattle imports to the U.S. over fears of screwworm infections. On ...

“The stench…it’s like roadkill stewed in infection,” explains Jose Santiago Gallardo Espinosa, a cattle producer from Chiriqui, Panama, describing an animal that has been infected with New World ...

The United States has suspended all animal imports from Mexico due to a parasitic fly that can produce flesh-eating maggots. New World screwworms are the cause of the indefinite suspension of animal ...

The United States is preparing to carry out a bold and surprising plan to fight a deadly threat — flesh-eating maggots. These maggots are the larvae of a dangerous insect known as the New World ...

Unlike flies that target manure or dead tissue, the New World screwworm lays eggs in living animals. When those eggs hatch, the larvae burrow into the tissue and feed, creating painful wounds that can ...

The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: “raining flies.” A biological control program is using sterile flies and fly eggs to fight flesh-eating maggots. The ...