Screwworm Case Detected Less Than 70 Miles From US-Mexico Border
The flesh-eating parasite was detected in northern Mexico. It is the northernmost case of the livestock infection, which was eradicated from the United States in the 1960s.
Mexico’s ministry of agriculture on Sunday confirmed a case of New World screwworm among cattle in Nuevo León, a state in northern Mexico. It is the northernmost case of the livestock infestation, which was eradicated from the United States in the 1960s but has resurged in Mexico in recent months.
The case involved an 8-month-old cow that had been moved to a feedlot in Nuevo León from an outbreak-affected region in Mexico. Of the 100 cattle in the shipment, only one animal carried the parasitic infestation, according to a statement from the ministry of agriculture...
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