Horse, bison imports from Mexico are also suspended due to the "rapid northward spread" of New World Screwworm, USDA said.

The New World screwworm is endemic in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean — and its northward spread into Mexico has ...

The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Sunday that the U.S. is halting imports of livestock at ports of entry ...

Hantavirus made national news this year after actor Gene Hackman’s wife died from the virus. Tahoe Vista resident Amie ...

Madison Schaeffer described it as her favorite call. As an epidemiologist and director of the New Mexico Department of Health's NMHealth Helpline, Schaeffer and her staff had fielded their fair share ...

Even though the U.S. eradicated the flesh-eating parasite the New World Screwworm six decades ago, its survival to the south ...

Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, passed away in February this year. As new video footage of the inside of their home ...

Following the deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa, her autopsy report found that she had an accumulation of fluid in her ...

The report, released Tuesday, confirmed the classical pianist died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in mid-February at ...

Gene Hackman had "severe" heart disease and Alzheimer's disease when he died, according to his autopsy report. His wife died ...

Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa's autopsy showed lung fluid accumulation caused by hantavirus, confirming her natural cause ...