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To say the New World Screwworm is a nasty parasite would be an understatement. The flesh-eating scourge that tortures cattle ...
After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.
Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...
For the second time in under six months, the U.S. is closed to cattle, sheep and bison imports through ports of entry along the southern border. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the ...
Melbourne Orlando International Airport (MLB) has a rich history on the Space Coast. In 1925, the U.S. Post Office contracted the air mail service with Florida Airways under the Kelly Act. What is now ...
At the U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills, there’s an existential question. And one inspiring answer, courtesy of Scottish pro ...
Rumors of a devastating pest being in Missouri are unfounded, according to the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA). New ...
To a throng of goats foraging in a remote expanse of Sanibel Island, Florida, the low whir of a plane flying overhead was ...
The New World Screwworm was first detected in a cow in southern Mexico in November ... Mexico’s health secretary has confirmed the flesh eating fly larva has spread to six people in his country.
This brought to a standstill the importation of feeder cattle from Mexico. Over the past 10 years, feeder cattle imports from Mexico averaged around 5% of U.S. feedlot placements.
US Likely to Resume Mexican Cattle Imports by Year End ... gives us a good picture of what our risk level is for the fly continuing to move north," USDA's chief veterinary officer, Rosemary ...