Illegal cattle ranching in Central America has led to the spread of a deadly parasite long thought to be eradicated, and ...

New World screwworm flies cause disease primarily in animals and livestock, but humans can be infested. NWS was eradicated in the US and Americas; however, Panama, Costa Ria, Nicaragua ...

Across California, public health and pest control authorities are facing a new reality as the Aedes mosquitoes bring the ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. A screwworm infestation is gruesome. The female fly lays hundreds of eggs on the exposed flesh of warm-blooded ...

Some districts are experimenting with the decades-old sterile insect technique, commonly used for other pests such as fruit ...

So, the worm has now been detected in Panama Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and now Guatemala. That's why the Ministry of Agriculture, BAHA and other stakeholders have wasted no time in establishing ...

New World screwworm (NWS; Cochliomyia hominivorax) is a fly with a metallic blue or green body and orange eyes that lays hundreds of eggs on wounds or exposed mucous membranes. The eggs hatch into ...

Mr. Fermin Blanco, Country Representative OIRSA "Curing wounds is essential because the blood is the one that attracts the fly. If the fly comes in it cannot find a wound then it cannot survive so the ...

Belize is ramping up its surveillance processes and its efforts to increase public awareness of New World Screwworm (NWS), ...

Agriculture and Fishery applies cost-benefit methodology applied to the eradication programme of the New World Screwworm (in Spanish) ...

Some of the larvae were described as being of an unidentified blue fly; these are almost certainly very early references to myiasis caused by the New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel ...

They’d watched nervously as invasive Aedes mosquito species that can carry the virus appeared in Los Angeles about a decade ...