Hospitals are filled with sterile single-use plastic. Environmental advocates are looking for less wasteful ways to keep healthcare hygienic. Photograph by Hannah Whitaker, National Geographic ...

One key tool to fighting screwworm is the release of sterile flies, which reduce the mating population of the wild flies. Currently, the only sterile fly production facility in North America is in ...

McALLEN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ramping up efforts to fight the spread of New World screwworm across the southern border by opening a sterile fly dispersal facility in South Texas.

Editor's Note: This article has been corrected to indicate that the $8.5 million sterile fly facility in Texas will be a dispersal facility, not a production facility.

The USDA has also invested $21 million in updating a plant in Metapa, Mexico, to produce sterile flies. (Reporting by Leah Douglas in WashingtonEditing by Matthew Lewis and Aurora Ellis) ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans on Wednesday to open a sterile fly dispersal facility in Hidalgo County, Texas, as part of the country's effort to fight the encroachment ...

Today Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a five-pronged plan to combat New World screwworm (NWS) – a pest that would devastate ranchers if it made its way across the border. Rollins ...

USDA’s recent $21 million expenditure went toward renovating an existing fruit fly production facility in Metapa, Mexico, which will provide an additional 60-100 million sterile flies a week to ...

For decades, a facility in Panama has regularly released millions of sterile flies to act as a barrier to the New World screwworm spreading north from further south. However, since 2022 – and ...

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