This article reviews the joint FAO/IAEA program to eradicate the New World Screwworm from Libya. The sterile insect technique was employed, and the success of the program is shown by the fact that Libya was declared free of the parasite in June 1992: the eradication program was thus completed in one year instead of two at a total cost of US $66.6 million. An independent study on the economic impact of the screwworm in North Africa put the annual regional benefit of eradication at more than US $300 million
