On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed "plans to fight back against threats posed by the New World screwworm."

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new efforts to combat the New World screwworm.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins addressed the threat of the New World Screwworm to livestock, pets, people and the economy. Follow updates on this developin

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to combat the New World screwworm threat.

The Texas Department of Agriculture continues to lead the fight against the threat of the New World Screwworm (NWS) by developing a state-of-the-art attractant to be used in tracking screwworm fly movement and proactively eliminating them where they are located.

The Screwworm Coalition of Texas, a coalition of 13 Texas groups, has launched a new website to deliver reliable information.

Texas just revealed its new defense to protect its $15B cattle industry from the deadly New World Screwworm, now just 370 miles from the state.