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Screwworm Response Team: How Governor Abbott is preparing for an infestation
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is forming a Screwworm response team to fight the invasive worm's expected return to Texas.
Texas cattle industry braces for screwworm threat as deadly parasite spreads from Mexico
A parasitic fly that devastated Texas livestock in the 1960s is spreading north through Central America and potentially ...
Texas cattle industry braces for screwworm threat
A parasitic fly that devastated Texas livestock in the 1960s is spreading north through Central America and potentially toward the state's $15 billion cattle industry, prompting state and federal ...
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Texas agencies gang up to combat invasive screwworm
Texas agencies are ganging up on a bad, bad worm. According to a release, the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks ...
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Screwworm Threat Spurs USDA to Build Texas Fly Factory
It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but the New World screwworm is a real and deadly insect. These parasitic ...