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New Texas response team to launch preemptive strike against screwworm
Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...
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Protect Your Livestock: Signs of New World Screwworm
Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...
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Preparing Producers for New World Screwworm
Re-emergence of the New World Screwworm (NWS) has become a recent concern for American agriculture. As the fly moves closer ...
Texas agencies unite to defend against New World screwworm invasion
Texas officials ramp up efforts against the New World screwworm, launching a response team to safeguard animals and ...
What to know about New World screwworm flies — and what’s at stake for Texas livestock
According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.
Flesh-Eating ‘Screwworm’ Parasites Are Headed to the U.S.
Officials in nine countries are trying to get a handle on the New World screwworm, a fly whose larvae eat the living flesh of ...
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In a Honduran Hospital, Screwworm Cases Are Grim
The US has come up with a strategy to stop the flesh-eating New World screwworm's northern march toward the US-Texas border.
Texas mobilizes to combat invasion threat of screwworm parasite on livestock
The New World screwworm, eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, could again pose a threat to Texas livestock, the beef ...