“The stench…it’s like roadkill stewed in infection,” explains Jose Santiago Gallardo Espinosa, a cattle producer from Chiriqui, Panama, describing an animal that has been infected with New World ...
BOISE, Idaho — Cow manure and fish guts and maggots. It could all soon be dinner — if you’re an Idaho rainbow trout. University of Idaho and Idaho State University scientists are working on a new ...
Shortly after Mexico reported a case of an infected cow, the United States Department of Agriculture halted all livestock imports from the US-Mexico border and is warning states along it to monitor ...
NWS is a “devastating pest” that infests warm-blooded animals, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). This ...
A creature that burrows headfirst into flesh, driving sharp hooks into open wounds and feeding on their hosts? It sounds like the stuff of a horror movie. That’s the New World screwworm, a parasite ...
HERMOSILLO, Mexico — The United States' suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped ...
CINTALAPA, Mexico (AP) — With Mexican cattle again barred this month from entry to the United States over fears of spreading a flesh-eating parasite, ranchers and veterinarians in Mexico hundreds of ...