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Oklahoma officials prep for screwworms, as pest spreads into North America
Detections of new world screwworms, a flesh-eating maggot, have grown in recent years in South America. As the federal ...
State leaders reassure public: meat remains safe despite screwworm concerns in livestock
TheOklahoma Secretary of Agriculture and the Oklahoma State Veterinarian are addressing the New World Screwworm (NWS), a ...
Oklahoma ranchers worried about screwworms inching closer to the state
Concern surrounds Oklahoma’s cattle industry with the fear of the New World screwworm inching closer to the U.S.
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Parasitic fly puts halt to cattle imports; U.S. legislators back domestic sterilization facility
A cattle ban placed on the southern border has prompted dozens of U.S. representatives to introduce a bill that would prevent ...
'Keeping us awake at night': Experts warn Oklahoma lawmakers of screwworms threat
As livestock imports from Mexico have been halted due to fears of the spread of flesh-eating maggots, Oklahoma lawmakers say the U.S. cannot let screwworms come back.
The U.S. suspended Mexican beef imports. Could the screwworm spread in Canada?
After the United States suspended imports of Mexican live beef cattle on Sunday, one Canadian public health expert says ...
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Bipartisan bill to combat screwworm outbreak
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins on May 11 announced the suspension of cattle, horse and bison imports along the Southern border due to the northward spread of New World Screwworm in ...
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New World Screwworm’s Threat Grows: Pest Detected Only 700 Miles From the U.S. Border
NCBA applauds Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins' aggressive efforts to suspend Mexican cattle, horse and bison imports, ...
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Tensions rise in pest control diplomacy between U.S. and Mexico over New World screwworm threat
Zoom screens lit up across Mexico and Texas as over two dozen agricultural leaders, including those in Mexico’s Department of ...
US cattle ban to last 15 days, president of Mexico says
The president of Mexico says she expects U.S. cattle imports ban on her country to last 15 days or less as both nations ...
Texas delegation proposes new facility to combat screwworm resurgence
Texas lawmakers are pushing forward with new legislation aimed at stopping the return of a devastating livestock pest that once threatened the nation’s cattle industry. On ...
Flesh-eating screwworm detected, US stops imports of Mexican cattle
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended all horse, cattle and bison imports over the parasitic outbreak.