The CDC said screwworms are most common in the tropics and subtropics, but recent cases have appeared in Central America for ...

Just one fly can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and is drawn "to the odor of a wound or natural opening on a live, warm-blooded ...

The insidious screwworm flies lay eggs in any body entrance—open wounds like barb wire scrapes, tick bites, nasal and eye ...

There are concerns New World screwworm flies, which can be dangerous to humans, could cross into southern Texas.

Despite there currently being no confirmed identifications of NWS in Texas, it was recently detected in a cow at a checkpoint ...

The federal government has a bad habit of spending money on problems before even figuring out what’s really wrong, and the ...

Shutterstock / Faisal.k A parasitic screwworm, which was eradicated from the US nearly 60 years ago, is reportedly ...

Look, I know a thing or two about screwworms. I was about eleven years old when the United States eradicated the New World Screwworm. Before then, screwworms were a devastating problem for ranchers.

Officials said they detected a cow with screwworms at a checkpoint near the Mexico-Guatemala border. According to the department, the latest detection follows a gradual northward movement of ...

They were detected in Mexico and officials are worried they'll migrate into Texas.