COPEG is working to reverse the advance of the screw worm by re-establishing a barrier of sterile flies - Empaque Del Vuelo/COPEG Every week, without fail, specially-modified light aircraft take off ...

MARATHON, FLA. (WSVN) - Volunteers from the Key Deer Sanctuary are working to save the deer from a dangerous flesh-eating parasite called screw worms. There are less than 1,000 Key Deer left in the ...

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[1] New Mexico officials prepare for possible New World Screw Worm outbreak – Officials say the parasitic ‘New World Screw Worm’ is getting closer to crossing the border, with the most recent ...

An outbreak of the insidious "screw worm" fly in Yemen, is threatening livelihoods, in a country where rearing livestock is a traditional way of life. The menacing fly lays its eggs in a cut or open ...

FLORIDA KEYS — Fifty endangered Key deer have been euthanized since a screw-worm infestation popped up in the Florida Keys and wildlife officials are taking drastic action to get the problem under ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The closest confirmed case yet of the New World screw worm has been detected just 70 miles south of the U.S.–Mexico border, sparking new concerns for the Kansas cattle industry.

The United States has banned all livestock imports from Mexico due to the rapid spread of screw worm disease, which could lead to increased meat prices in the short term. The chair of the Chihuahua ...

A 'man-eating' parasite, once thought to be extinct, has made a terrifying comeback, killing one woman and infecting many more. In horrifying scenes, Reina Avila, 57, was given a tissue by a nurse to ...

The flesh-eating fly larvae, which have been detected in Mexico, were declared eradicated from Texas in the 1960s.