Flesh-eating parasite nears U.S. border, halts livestock trade with Mexico amid rising fears of outbreak and threats to U.S. agriculture.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins closed the border to Mexican cattle for a second time after new reports of ...

Additionally, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (and its Mexican counterparts continue to hold ongoing technical calls and meetings on NWS. They are making strong progress toward ...

After screwworm scare, US-Mexico border set to reopen for cattle imports The United States and Mexico plan to reopen the U.S. border to Mexican cattle imports in July ...

The US has announced the reopening of the sterile fly production plant in Chiapas, part of a joint strategy with Mexico to combat screwworm.

Update on USDA efforts to fight new World Screwworm in Mexico Editors Note: The following is a press release and includes information from a local vet interviewd at the end of story by Teresa Evans, ...

USDA invests $21M to expand sterile fly production in Mexico, boosting efforts with Mexico to combat New World Screwworm and protect livestock and food security.

(Washington, D.C., May 27, 2025)– U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today provided an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the ...

Outdoors 'Painful' flesh-eating insect once eradicated from US prompts officials to halt livestock imports from Mexico: 'A national security issue' The situation is already impacting the food supply ...

It’s been decades since the New World Screwworm was a problem in the U.S., but the flies are now advancing northward from Panama. They could disrupt American agriculture if they gain a foothold here ...