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Mexico-to-US cattle shipments to restart after tense battle with screwworm
Mexico-to-US cattle shipments, shut down since May, will start up again next week with “risk-based port re-openings," the ...
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Texas A&M AgriLife announces New World screwworm fact sheet
Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.
New Texas response team to launch preemptive strike against screwworm
Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...
USDA seeks to combat spread of New World screwworms into U.S.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced a plan to enhance the agency's ability to detect, control ...
USDA to reopen southern border livestock ports after disease concerns
The United States Department of Agriculture is set to begin a phased reopening of southern border livestock ports following ...
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Protect Your Livestock: Signs of New World Screwworm
Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...
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Preparing Producers for New World Screwworm
Re-emergence of the New World Screwworm (NWS) has become a recent concern for American agriculture. As the fly moves closer ...
Animals Around the Globe on MSN4d
Screwworm Threat Spurs USDA to Build Texas Fly Factory
It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but the New World screwworm is a real and deadly insect. These parasitic ...