USDA to build Texas facility to fight flesh-eating screwworms

Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a facility in Texas that produces sterile flies to fight the flesh-eating livestock pest New World screwworm, Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday.

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