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Mexican ranchers hit by flesh-eating screwworm want action on cattle smuggling

By Cassandra Garrison TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) -On a scorching afternoon in the rural heartland outside Mexico's southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemala border, rancher Julio Herrera calls his herd back from an afternoon of grazing.

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USDA to Build Texas Facility to Fight Flesh-Eating Screwworms

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a facility in Texas that produces sterile flies to fight the flesh-eating livestock pest New World screwworm, Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday.

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In Texas cattle country, ranchers brace for flesh-eating screwworms

By Heather Schlitz and Cassandra Garrison LIVE OAK COUNTY, Texas/TAPACHULA, Mexico/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -He was only eight years old in 1973, but fifth-generation Texas rancher Kip Dove remembers spending countless days trotting up to sick and dying cattle on horseback that year during the last major outbreak of flesh-eating screwworm.

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Texas, USDA unveil $100 million push and $750 million plant to stop New World screwworm

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new ...

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USDA Secretary announces large federal investment, new South Texas facility to combat New World screwworm

Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the ...

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Ranchers in southern Mexico are struggling against a flesh-eating parasite infecting livestock

Alfredo Chavez, a cattle rancher and livestock technician, shows New World screwworm larvae removed from a cow at his ranch in Cintalapa, Chiapas, Mexico, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, amid an infestation ...

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Cross-Border Cattle Chaos: Mexico's Silent Screwworm Crisis

Mexico faces a growing screwworm crisis linked to illegal cattle movement from Central America. Ranchers demand stronger ...

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces plans to address screwworm threat

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed “plans to fight back against threats posed by the New World screwworm.” ...

Gov. Abbott announces $750M New World Screwworm protection facility

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...

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Spread of flesh-eating parasite in Mexico puts US on high alert

The New World screwworm is a fly larva that infests the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, including humans, that causes ...

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Avian Flu Wiped Out Poultry. Now the Screwworm Is Coming for Beef.

The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping ...

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Ranchers in southern Mexico are struggling against a flesh-eating ...

Alfredo Chavez, cattle rancher and livestock technician, shows New World screwworm larvae removed from a cow at his ranch in Cintalapa, Chiapas, Mexico, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, amid an ...

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USDA expands effort to protect livestock industry from NWS

NWS is a devastating pest, the USDA said. When NWS fly larvae (maggots) burrow into the flesh of a living animal, they cause ...

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