Screwworm Fly Detected In Texas Decades After Cattle Threat Was Largely Eradicated In U.S.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it suspects that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas. The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday, the first time in decades that the parasite with flesh-eating larvae has threatened the nation’s cattle industry and only the third time it’s appeared in the U.S. in that time. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the case was in a 3-week-old calf in LaPryor,
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