The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has provided an update on USDA's ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the pest known as the new world screwworm. Rollins said she discussed the ...

Screwworm outbreak in Mexico leads to six human cases and a U.S. livestock import ban, threatening public health and cattle ...

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

Rollins also announced the USDA invested $21 million in renovating an existing fruit fly production facility in Metapa, ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today provided an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ongoing ...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins provided an update on the USDA’s ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the New World ...

On May 11, 2025 the U.S. suspended live animal imports from Mexico. This brought to a standstill the importation of feeder ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Falling investment, slowing growth, and the changing whims of U.S. President Donald Trump have led ...

The fly infects living mammals, including livestock, pets and humans. Untreated, it can lead to death. The U.S. previously eradicated the New World screwworm in the 1960s.

Yesterday afternoon, Secretary Rollins held a call with her counterpart in Mexico, Secretary Berdegue, to discuss the ongoing ...

U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann said Congress is working to fund the USDA's sterile insect technique in response to a New World ...

For the second time in under six months, the U.S. is closed to cattle, sheep and bison imports through ports of entry along the southern border. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the ...