New World screwworm detected in Texas livestock

🚨 Happening live TODAY, June 8 at 3 PM ET: @SecRollins will host a press conference providing updates on the New World Screwworm. ▶️ usda.gov/live pic.x.com/t4TUIPIr94

Today, alongside @GregAbbott_TX, Admiral Schmoyer, Under Secretary Hutchins, John Bellinger, and South Texas ranchers — we saw firsthand the cutting-edge research battling New World Screwworm every single day. We toured the @USDA_ARS Knipling-Bushland Livestock Insects Research pic.x.com/uvjyxgiTFU

🚨 WAR ON SCREWWORM Inspect • Report • Protect We have been in full combat mode against this invasive threat since Day One. • Millions of sterile flies deployed weekly in the infected 20km zone alone — 4 million by air + 4 million on the ground, plus an additional 90 pic.x.com/ALip0RLUMk

🪰 A dangerous flesh-eating fly is spreading across the United States Texas authorities have confirmed two new infections. The larvae of the parasitic flesh-eating fly were found in a calf and a dog. That brings the total number of detected cases in the country to four. The pic.x.com/442TLYHL0R