U.S. Screwworm Tally Holds at 32 for a Full Week as USDA’s Sterile-Fly Network Scales Up
The count of New World screwworm has held at 32 confirmed animal cases for a full week, the longest plateau since the pest crossed into Texas in early June.
The count of New World screwworm has held at 32 confirmed animal cases for a full week, the longest plateau since the pest crossed into Texas in early June.
The U.S. southern border reaches one year closed to livestock trade this week, and with New World screwworm now established inside Texas, the calculus for reopening it has been turned on its head.
The Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio said it will open its high-containment laboratories to a British biotechnology company to develop new tools against the New World screwworm, a new front in the response as the U.S. case count reached 32.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to immediately authorize the use of ivermectin in medicated livestock feed, saying Texas ranchers need every proven tool available to stop the rapidly expanding New World screwworm outbreak.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States climbed to 29 as of June 30, with a dog in Pecos County becoming the first Texas case in a companion animal, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's confirmed-detections dashboard as reported by Yahoo News and the farm outlet AGDAILY.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States has climbed to 27 animals as of June 29, nearly all of them in Texas, while the cattle futures market, which includes the state's $15 billion cattle sector, is nearing all-time highs.
The New World screwworm has pushed into the South Texas borderlands for the first time, prompting the Texas Animal Health Commission to stand up a tenth formal quarantine zone as the confirmed U.S. case count reached 26, according to FOX 7 Austin.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States has risen to 20 — 19 in Texas and one in New Mexico — after the flesh-eating parasite turned up in a bovine in Medina County, according to FOX 7 Austin's Amber Kite, whose June 25 reporting cited federal and state animal-health agencies.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States has risen to 19, with 18 now identified in Texas and one in New Mexico.
The federal registry for the New World screwworm outbreak has reached 16 confirmed cases following a new detection in a goat in Terrell County.