JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - Horse smuggling raises new concerns over U.S. screwworm threat
The New World screwworm was eradicated from the United States decades ago, but it has recently returned to the region, reports say
NYTIMES (James Wagner and Luis Antonio Rojas) - Inside the Fight Against a Flesh-Eating Fly in Mexico
For the first time in a year, the U.S.-Mexico border partly reopened to cattle imports following a screwworm infestation across the region. The battle against the flesh-eating fly has only just begun deep in Mexico.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Premature giraffe calf born via emergency C-section
ABC News' Danny New has the incredible story of Milani, a giraffe at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Kansas, who was delivered via C-section to a mother who couldn’t survive her illness.
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - USDA Lets Loose 400 Million Lab-Bred Flies to Counteract Flesh-Eating Screwworms.
The USDA is deploying hundreds of millions of flies bred in a factory to prevent the reestablishment of the New World screwworm in the U.S., a parasite capable of devastating livestock and wildlife, and occasionally infecting humans.
The USDA is deploying hundreds of millions of flies bred in a factory to prevent the reestablishment of the New World screwworm in the U.S., a parasite capable of devastating livestock and wildlife , and occasionally infecting humans. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) has released nearly 400 million sterile flies over Texas and northern Mexico to combat the spread of the New World screwworm , a flesh-eating parasite that threatens livestock, wildlife, pets, and occasionally humans. This effort aims to prevent the parasite from becoming reestablished in the United States after confirmed cases were reported in Texas and New Mexico last month. DETAIL: The campaign relies on breeding sterile insects en…Open
NEWSNATIONNOW (Josie Fischels) - USDA opens facility producing millions of sterile flies as screwworm cases rise
New $21 million facility aims to produce millions of sterile flies to stop the spread of flesh-eating livestock parasite.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Screwworm threatens Texas' $32 billion industry if USDA doesn't use full arsenal: AG commissioner
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is calling on federal officials to immediately deploy a decades-old eradication tool he says could wipe out the New World screwworm outbreak in 90 days. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Damita Menezes) - USDA's sterile fly strategy for screwworm outbreak is failing: TX ag chief
"It's a definition of insanity," Miller told NewsNation on Friday. "We're doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. It's just not happening."
NEWSNATIONNOW (Sybille de La Hamaide) - UN launches project to help contain screwworm using flies
The pest has re-emerged in Central America and Mexico and was confirmed in the U.S. this month, the first occurrence there in more than 40 years, raising risks for livestock, wildlife and pets and sending beef prices to near record highs.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Josie Fischels) - Texas flooding could help screwworm spread
The flesh-eating parasite has already triggered quarantines and emergency fly releases this year.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Screwworm cases rise to 12 as Texas expands livestock quarantines
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed at least 12 cases of the New World screwworm, including one case in a pet dog in New Mexico. NewsNation's Xavier Walton has the latest details.