The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, ...

Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday he has directed officials to create a Texas New World Screwworm Response Team, warning a “reemergence” of the parasitic fly could have devastating — and deadly ...

Deep in the humid lowlands of southern Mexico, engineers, veterinarians and entomologists are racing to repurpose a plant ...

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a swarm could be the livestock industry’s best defense against a flesh-eating ...

To combat an outbreak of flesh-eating New World screwworm flies in the US, the country is taking the threat to livestock seriously with plans to drop hundreds of millions of sterilised flies from ...

A flesh-eating parasite that once ravaged Texas livestock is creeping back—and the state is stepping in to stop it. The state will be deploying traps with synthetic bait along the Mexican border, ...

The New World screwworm, whose larva “screws” into the skin and can infect humans as well as livestock, will be here within four months, experts say Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. To borrow a phrase from Tom Paterson, president-elect of the New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association, ...

Texas has announced it would begin rolling out a new strategy to prevent the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite carried by flies, from infiltrating farms near the southern border. The New ...

A new species of bacteria has come to light in Brazil. It’s genetically similar to two other disease-causing bacteria from the Andes, which are known to infect humans through sand fly bites. According ...