With tail wagging, tongue out and ears perked, Hummer - a young mixed breed dog with a slick black coat - sits down in front of a sample of screwworm scent, promptly accepting praise and treats from ...

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

The flesh-eating pest has disrupted Mexico's livestock trade with the US. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

In Mexico, dogs like Hummer are crucial in detecting screwworm, a pest threatening livestock and trade. Trained at a ...

Officials from a special unit of the country's health safety agency Senasica run a three-month intensive training program for ...

USDA's plan was to slowly reopen the southern border, but a new case of New World screwworm in Mexico has put reopening plans ...

Christopher Lee, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, provides his insights into the fight against New World screwworm—which includes an expanded screwworm production facility—in this Vet Watch update ...

Understanding the New World screwworm blowfly and its behavior underscores why it is so dangerous to the livestock industry.

U.S. border closure for Mexican cattle after new screwworm case in Veracruz, frustrating reopening and raising tensions.

Beef cattle producers are happy with prices but are also grappling with other issues that come with the new territory.

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

To combat an outbreak of flesh-eating New World screwworm flies in the US, the country is taking the threat to livestock ...