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Texas officials call situation “not a drill” as the parasite reaches its nearest point to the U.S. yet; spring branding and calving season puts Texas herds in the window of risk.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is urging every livestock producer in the state to inspect animals immediately after the New World screwworm was confirmed in northern Mexico just 90 miles from the U.S. border last week, the closest the flesh-eating parasite has come to Texas during the current outbreak.The detection, confirmed April 10 in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, is wh...
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