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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended all horse, cattle and bison imports over the parasitic outbreak.
New World Screwworm threat re-emerges, posing a potential economic impact of $1.8 billion for Oklahoma's agriculture.
The New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly, has re-emerged as a potential threat to livestock and humans in the United States.
Prices will go up with the halt on Mexican cattle imports, but the border closure won't help eradicate the parasite.
U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann said Congress is working to fund the USDA's sterile insect technique in response to a New World ...
Amid a surge to over 1,400 confirmed New World screwworm cases in Mexico and an immediate US suspension of live cattle imports, Christopher Lee, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, warns this parasitic fly could breach ...
The U.S. Mexico border is shut down to livestock all over fears of new-world screwworm flies. It’s a topic of concern among ranchers.
Black flies are very tiny, blood-sucking flies in the insect family Simuliidae. Contrary to their name, black flies may be ...