Texas federal lawmakers are making a bipartisan effort to introduce legislation to help combat the Cattle Fever Tick ...

R. Lansford, the deputy executive director and assistant state veterinarian of the Texas Animal Health Commission. “Any little wound can lead to an infestation if the worms are present in the en ...

Williams objected and sued the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks & Wildlife in January 2022. By the time the case had wound its way through Houston’s 14 th Court of Appeals and ...

Mexican authorities told the United States Department of Agriculture in November of a positive detection of New World Screwworm in a cow, according to the Texas Animal Health Commission.

Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Kynan Sturgess, D.V.M., to the Texas Animal Health Commission for a term that will expire on September 6, 2027. The commission is tasked with protecting and ...

Across the country, dairy producers have dumped milk and infected chickens have been killed, including millions of egg-laying ...

Keeping the U.S. free of screwworm saves livestock producers close to $1 billion a year, said Texas Animal Health Commission spokesperson Erin Robinson, pointing to a USDA estimate that accounts ...

Possible signs in livestock should be reported to the Texas Animal Health Commission or the USDA. Kyle McClenagan is a digital reporter with Houston Public Media. He writes daily news stories on a ...

Keeping the U.S. free of screwworm saves livestock producers close to $1 billion a year, said Texas Animal Health Commission spokesperson Erin Robinson, pointing to a USDA estimate that accounts for ...

The Texas Animal Health Commission and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the presence of HPAI, also known as bird flu, in Brazoria County ...

Texas wildlife officials are warning people that the New World Screwworm, a nasty parasite, might be making a return. It was spotted in Mexico recently, and Texas is on high alert, especially in South ...